AN INSTRUMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE VOICING CONTRAST IN WORD-INITIAL STOPS IN THE SPEECH OF 4-YEAR-OLD ENGLISH-SPEAKING CHILDREN
AN INSTRUMENTAL ANALYSIS OF THE VOICING CONTRAST IN WORD-INITIAL STOPS IN THE SPEECH OF 4-YEAR-OLD ENGLISH-SPEAKING CHILDREN
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DOI：
10.1177/002383098002300203
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发表时间：
1980-01-01
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
MACKEN, MA
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作者：
BARTON, D;MACKEN, MA
本文对4名4岁儿童的声母塞音起始时间（VOT）特征进行了研究。仪器分析的儿童的自发语音表明，他们有不同的分布在所有三个地方的发音和有声和无声的停止，有声和无声的同源词之间的重叠很少。孤立地说出的话，在句子中说出的话比较显示，这些孩子有较短的VOT值在运行的讲话。从年龄较小的儿童数据的重新分析表明，这种修改的证据，根据上下文在1岁;9。然而，即使在4岁时，数据也不完全像成年人：与成年人相比，4岁的奥尔兹有更长的平均VOT值，有更大的值范围，并且根据句子上下文的修改较少。四岁奥尔兹的数据被解释为进一步的证据，在产生无休止的停止在平均VOT值方面，儿童首先超过成人值，然后才逐渐将它们拉回到成人值。
This paper reports on an investigation of the voice-onset-time (VOT) characteristics of word-initial stops produced by four four-year-old children. Instrumental analysis of the children's spontaneous speech showed that they had distinct distributions for voiced and voiceless stops at all three places of articulation and that there was very little overlap between voiced and voiceless cognates. Comparison of words uttered in isolation with words uttered in a sentence context revealed that these children had shorter VOT values in running speech. Reanalysis of data from younger children showed evidence of such modification according to context at age 1;9. However, even at age 4 the data were not completely adult-like: Compared with adults, the four-year-olds had longer mean VOT values, there was a greater range of values and there was less modification according to sentence context. The four-year-olds' data were interpreted as further evidence for the position that in producing voiceless stops in terms of mean VOT values, children first overshoot adult values and then only gradually draw them back towards adult values.