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.

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Author:Bogdana Ulytska
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):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht