TY - GEN
T1 - The word complexity measure (WCM) in early phonological development
T2 - 27th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing, ROCLING 2015
AU - Chen, Li Mei
AU - Liu, Yi Hsiang
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PY - 2015/10/1
Y1 - 2015/10/1
N2 - Word Complexity Measure (WCM, Stoel-Gammon, 2010) is a system of phonological assessment for children's speech productions, a method that focuses on the complexity rather than accuracy. With its flexible parameter program, the assessment can be adjusted to the phonological properties of different languages. In the current study, the WCM was used to assess speech production of three Mandarin-learning children from birth to three years old. In addition to the original parameters in Stoel-Gammon (2010), the Chinese version of WCM made some adjustments, including incorporating productions of fricatives, affricates, /z/, /y/, and the late acquired vowels and consonants, to examine the complexity of speech productions. Major findings in the developmental changes of the first 3 years are: 1) the complexity of the intelligible words increased, with individual differences in the stability of changes; 2) the complexity of the unintelligible syllables also elaborated; 3) the percentage of simple words/syllables decreased in both intelligible and unintelligible productions.
AB - Word Complexity Measure (WCM, Stoel-Gammon, 2010) is a system of phonological assessment for children's speech productions, a method that focuses on the complexity rather than accuracy. With its flexible parameter program, the assessment can be adjusted to the phonological properties of different languages. In the current study, the WCM was used to assess speech production of three Mandarin-learning children from birth to three years old. In addition to the original parameters in Stoel-Gammon (2010), the Chinese version of WCM made some adjustments, including incorporating productions of fricatives, affricates, /z/, /y/, and the late acquired vowels and consonants, to examine the complexity of speech productions. Major findings in the developmental changes of the first 3 years are: 1) the complexity of the intelligible words increased, with individual differences in the stability of changes; 2) the complexity of the unintelligible syllables also elaborated; 3) the percentage of simple words/syllables decreased in both intelligible and unintelligible productions.
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M3 - Conference contribution
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T3 - Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing, ROCLING 2015
SP - 233
EP - 247
BT - Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing, ROCLING 2015
A2 - Chen, Sin-Horng
A2 - Wang, Hsin-Min
A2 - Chien, Jen-Tzung
A2 - Kao, Hung-Yu
A2 - Chang, Wen-Whei
A2 - Wang, Yih-Ru
A2 - Wu, Shih-Hung
PB - The Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP)
Y2 - 1 October 2015 through 2 October 2015
ER -