학술논문
Preschool children's consistency of word production.
Document Type
Article
Author
Source
Subject
*Statistics
*Speech evaluation
*Language acquisition
*Phonetics
*Psycholinguistics
*Sound recordings
*Language disorders
*Video recording
Phonological awareness
Confidence intervals
Analysis of variance
Age distribution
Mann Whitney U Test
Sex distribution
T-test (Statistics)
Descriptive statistics
Research funding
Data analysis
Children
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Language
ISSN
0269-9206
Abstract
Consistency of word production contributes to carers' ability to understand children's speech. Reports of the proportion of words produced consistently by typically developing preschool children, however, vary widely from 17% to 87%. This paper examines the quantitative (consistency count) and qualitative (e.g. phonemic analysis) characteristics of word consistency in 96 children aged 36–60 months. Children named 15 pictures twice, in separate trials, in the same assessment session. The mean consistency of the production for the whole group was 82%. Older children were more consistent than younger children. Girls were more consistent than boys. Words produced correctly in one trial and in error in another may indicate resolving error patterns. Words produced in error in two different ways provided useful evidence about the nature of inconsistent word production in typically developing children. The clinical and theoretical implications are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]