How do Children Perceive Speech Sounds?

Question 1

What ways are speech varied?

Answer 1

1. Pitch
2. Duration
3. Vowel quality

Question 2

What is categorial perception?

Answer 2

How we recognize speech regardless of variables, allows us to discard irrelevant info

Question 3

Explain HAS

Answer 3

High Amplitude Sucking: The theory that if infants are processing a new sound they suck harder

Question 4

What is the sucking rate of an infant with a new sound? With an old sound?

Answer 4

New sound: higher sucking rate

Old sound: slower sucking rate

Question 5

What is the turn head procedure?

Answer 5

An older infant speech conditioning - they are taught to turn head with a change of speech stimulus

Question 6

What does the phrase “citizen of the world” mean?

Answer 6

A child is born with initial perceptual mechanisms to detect any phonetic contrasts (in any language). This is later modified to mother language

Question 7

What is phonetic discrimination?

Answer 7

The ability to tell the difference between two sounds with no meaning difference

Question 8

What is phonetic perception?

Answer 8

Identifying sound categories that denote meaning differences

Question 9

Are infants born with categorial perception?

Answer 9

Some. This allows categorization of sounds and allows for analysis of incoming information