TY  - THES
A1  - Ulytska, Bogdana
T1  - The contribution of spectral and temporal information to vowel length perception in German in children and adults
N2  - 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.
Y1  - 2015
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/37726
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-377262
EP  - 174
PB  - Univ.-Bibliothek
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -