The contribution of spectral and temporal information to vowel length perception in German in children and adults
- In the present work, mismatch negativity (MMN) was used to examine the contribution of spectral vs. temporal perceptual features to vowel length discrimination in children and adults. Three age groups (adults vs. 9-10 years vs. 10-11 years olds) have been taken to examine developmental effects on vowel length perception. Natural (i.e., spectrotemporal) vowel length differences were compared with (artificially modified) stimulus pairs varying only in temporal or spectral characteristics to contrast spectral, temporal and spectrotemporal processing. The result indicates that, while adults integrate spectral and temporal aspects of the speech signal in an additive way, children of 9-10 years of age sequentially process both features. However, vowel length processing is found to become adultlike at the age of 10-11 years.
Author: | Bogdana Ulytska |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-377262 |
Publisher: | Univ.-Bibliothek |
Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
Referee: | Christian FiebachORCiDGND, Gerhard BüttnerGND |
Document Type: | Doctoral Thesis |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2015/06/18 |
Year of first Publication: | 2015 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Granting Institution: | Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität |
Date of final exam: | 2015/06/10 |
Release Date: | 2015/06/19 |
Page Number: | 191 |
Last Page: | 174 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 360536204 |
Institutes: | Psychologie und Sportwissenschaften / Psychologie |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |