The purpose of this investigation was to examine the peculiarities of recognition by native speakers of a lexical word meaning of Russian 2-8 years old children. Significant improvement of recognition by adult native speakers of words meaning of 8 years old children in comparison with 2-7 years old children’s is established. It was shown that by 7 years stressed vowels in words are significant longer than unstressed vowels; pitch values do not differ in stressed and unstressed vowels, that relevant for Russian. By 7 years accuracy of articulation of vowels, by 8 years - most correct articulation of the majority of consonants is formed. The relation between child’s age articulation skills and the word meaning recognition by native speakers are discussed.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication15th International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2013
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings
EditorsMiloš Železný, Ivan Habernal, Andrey Ronzhin
Place of PublicationCham
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages54–61
ISBN (Print)9783319019307
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event15th International Conference on Speech and Computer - Pilsen, Czech Republic
Duration: 1 Sep 20135 Sep 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
PublisherSpringer
Volume8113
ISSN (Print)0302-9743

Conference

Conference15th International Conference on Speech and Computer
Abbreviated titleSPECOM 2013
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityPilsen
Period1/09/135/09/13

    Research areas

  • Children, Adult, Meaning of words, Auditory analysis, Spectral characteristics, Vowels

    Scopus subject areas

  • Neuroscience(all)

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