The relationship between auditory-visual speech perception and language-specific speech perception at the onset of reading instruction in English-speaking children

2013-10-01
Erdener, Dogu
Burnham, Denis
Speech perception is auditory visual, but relatively little is known about auditory visual compared with auditory-only speech perception. One avenue for further understanding is via developmental studies. In a recent study, Sekiyama and Burnham (2008) found that English speakers significantly increase their use of visual speech information between 6 and 8 years of age but that this development does not appear to be universal across languages. Here, the possible bases for this language-specific increase among English speakers were investigated. Four groups of English-language children (5, 6, 7, and 8 years) and a group of adults were tested on auditory visual, auditory-only, and visual-only speech perception; language-specific speech perception with native and non-native speech sounds; articulation; and reading. Results showed that language-specific speech perception and lip-reading ability reliably predicted auditory visual speech perception in children but that adult auditory visual speech perception was predicted by auditory-only speech perception. The implications are discussed in terms of both auditory visual speech perception and language development.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY

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Citation Formats
D. Erdener and D. Burnham, “The relationship between auditory-visual speech perception and language-specific speech perception at the onset of reading instruction in English-speaking children,” JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY, pp. 120–138, 2013, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/64395.