Children’s Reactions to Nonfluencies in Adult Speech
- 1 March 1958
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Speech Language Hearing Association in Journal of Speech and Hearing Research
- Vol. 1 (1) , 86-93
- https://doi.org/10.1044/jshr.0101.86
Abstract
120 normal speaking kindergarten and 2d-grade children ranging in age from 5 years and 5 months to 8 years, divided equally as to sex, listened to 3 250-word reading passages, one which had no modification identified as the Fluent pattern; a 2d modified so that it included a pre-determined number of kind of interjections; a 3d modified to include a pre-determined number of repetitions of initial portions of certain words. Children evaluated which persons read stories best and which story was best. Speech patterns affect children''s preferences for person telling story, but there was no evidence that they affected preferences for a story. These children seemed aware of nonfluencies and seemingly reacted against time.Keywords
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