Effect of mothers' voices on auditory comprehension in children.
Normal-speaking/hearing 2-, 3-, and 4-yr.-old children (N = 15) were asked to point to pictorial representations of words in a forced-choice task. The auditory stimuli were randomized tape-recorded presentations of each subject's mother and a male stranger. An analysis of variance indicated that subjects, regardless of age, understood their mothers better.
D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007804:Language Development; D009035:Mothers; D013067:Speech Perception; D014831:Voice; D014833:Voice Quality