TY - GEN
T1 - Speech Timing in Typically Developing Mandarin-Speaking Children From Ages 3 To 4
AU - Lew, Jeng Man
AU - Chen, Li Mei
AU - Lin, Yu-Ching
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported through funds from National Science and Technology Council in Taiwan (NSC 99-2410-H-006-102-MY2) to Li-Mei Chen. A special thank you is extended to the families of the children in this longitudinal study for their support of this project.
Funding Information:
This research was supported through funds from National Science and Technology Council in Taiwan (NSC 99-2410-H-006 -102-MY2) to Li-Mei Chen. A special thank you is extended to the families of the children in this longitudinal study for their support of this project.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 the Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP).
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This study aims to develop a better understanding of the speech timing development in Mandarin-speaking children from 3 to 4 years of age. Data were selected from two typically developing children. Four 50-min recordings were collected during 3 and 4 years old based on natural conversation among the observers, participants, and the parents, and the picture-naming task. Speech timing were measured by Praat, including speaking rate, articulation rate, mean length of utterance (MLUs), mean utterance duration, mean word duration, pause ratio, and volubility. Major findings of the current study are: 1) Five measurements (speaking rate, mean length of utterance (MLUs), mean utterance length, mean word duration and volubility) decreased with age in both children; 2) Articulation rate of both children increased with age; 3) Comparing with the findings from previous studies, pause ratio of both slightly increased with age. These findings not only contribute to a more comprehensive data for assessment, it also can be a reference in speech intervention.
AB - This study aims to develop a better understanding of the speech timing development in Mandarin-speaking children from 3 to 4 years of age. Data were selected from two typically developing children. Four 50-min recordings were collected during 3 and 4 years old based on natural conversation among the observers, participants, and the parents, and the picture-naming task. Speech timing were measured by Praat, including speaking rate, articulation rate, mean length of utterance (MLUs), mean utterance duration, mean word duration, pause ratio, and volubility. Major findings of the current study are: 1) Five measurements (speaking rate, mean length of utterance (MLUs), mean utterance length, mean word duration and volubility) decreased with age in both children; 2) Articulation rate of both children increased with age; 3) Comparing with the findings from previous studies, pause ratio of both slightly increased with age. These findings not only contribute to a more comprehensive data for assessment, it also can be a reference in speech intervention.
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M3 - Conference contribution
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T3 - ROCLING 2022 - Proceedings of the 34th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing
SP - 230
EP - 235
BT - ROCLING 2022 - Proceedings of the 34th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing
A2 - Chang, Yung-Chun
A2 - Huang, Yi-Chin
A2 - Wu, Jheng-Long
A2 - Su, Ming-Hsiang
A2 - Huang, Hen-Hsen
A2 - Liu, Yi-Fen
A2 - Lee, Lung-Hao
A2 - Chou, Chin-Hung
A2 - Liao, Yuan-Fu
PB - The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP)
T2 - 34th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing, ROCLING 2022
Y2 - 21 November 2022 through 22 November 2022
ER -