Effect of Lisping on Audience Evaluation of Male Speakers
- 1 May 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Speech Language Hearing Association in Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders
- Vol. 43 (2) , 140-148
- https://doi.org/10.1044/jshd.4302.140
Abstract
The social consequences of adult listeners' first impression of lisping were evaluated in two studies. Five adult speakers were rated by adult listeners with regard to speaking ability, intelligence, education, masculinity, and friendship. Results from both studies indicate that listeners rate adult speakers who demonstrate frontal lisping lower than nonlispers in all five categories investigated. Efforts to correct frontal lisping are justifiable on the basis of the poor impression lisping speakers make on the listener.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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- The Social Position Of The Speech Defective ChildJournal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1954
- The Effect of Maturation upon Defective Articulation in Elementary GradesJournal of Speech Disorders, 1942