An association between mothers' speech clarity and infants' speech discrimination skills
An association between mothers' speech clarity and infants' speech discrimination skills
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DOI：
10.1111/1467-7687.00275
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发表时间：
2003-06-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Tsao, FM
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作者：
Liu, HM;Kuhl, PK;Tsao, FM
对婴儿说话的质量在婴儿语言发展中起着重要的作用。然而，很少有研究探讨两者之间的联系。我们在两组说普通话的母婴对中研究了母亲言语清晰度和婴儿言语感知表现之间的相关性。母亲的语音清晰度进行了评估，使用的元音空间，以前的措施，以反映单词和句子的可理解性的扩展程度。婴儿（6-8个月和10-12个月）的言语辨别力采用转头任务进行测量。研究结果表明，母亲的元音空间面积与婴儿的言语辨别能力显著相关。来自父母双方的社会经济数据表明，这一结果不能归因于父母的社会经济因素。本研究具有相关性，因此无法确定因果关系。然而，研究结果与母亲的语言清晰度直接影响婴儿早期语言学习的观点一致。
The quality of speech directed towards infants may play an important role in infants' language development. However, few studies have examined the link between the two. We examined the correlation between maternal speech clarity and infant speech perception performance in two groups of Mandarin-speaking mother-infant pairs. Maternal speech clarity was assessed using the degree of expansion of the vowel space, a measure previously shown to reflect the intelligibility of words and sentences. Speech discrimination in the infants (6-8 and 10-12-month-olds) was measured using a head-turn task. The results show that mothers' vowel space area is significantly correlated with infants' speech discrimination performance. Socioeconomic data from both parents show that the result cannot be attributed to parental socioeconomic factors. This study is correlational and therefore a causal relationship cannot be firmly established. However; the results are consistent with the view that maternal speech clarity directly affects infants' early language learning.