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Developmental changes in articulation rate and phonic groups during narration in French children aged four to eleven years

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: This paper reports on an original study designed to investigate age-related change in the way French children produce speech during oral narrative, considering both prosodic parameters - speaking rate and duration of the prosodic speech unit - and linguistic structure. Eighty-five French children aged four to eleven years were asked to tell a story after they were shown an excerpt from an animated film. All their remarks were transcribed and coded using ELAN as an annotation tool. Each narrative was analyzed for duration, articulation rate, and linguistic components (i.e., number of phonic groups, syllables, words, clauses). All measures were found to increase with age, with the duration of the phonic group and its linguistic structure showing the stronger differences. Results contribute to providing reference data on speech production during childhood, and they suggest the existence of two distinct developmental patterns in narrative production.

Source: Journal of Child Language

DOI: 10.1017/s0305000918000235

Authors: Jean-Marc COLLETTA, Catherine PELLENQ, Ali HADIAN-CEFIDEKHANIE, Isabelle ROUSSET

Institutions: Laboratoire de Linguistique et Didactique des Langues Etrangères et Maternelles, Université Grenoble Alpes, Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Apprentissages en Contexte

Language: English

Topic: Language Development and Disorders

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: Agence Nationale de la Recherche

Award: G766923599