Syllable identification by children and adults for two task conditions.
Both 6-year-old children and adults showed as good performance on a syllable identification task for a test condition having more trials per test run and a lower overall level of positive reinforcement as they did for a condition with fewer trials per test run and a higher, overall level of positive reinforcement. Differences between identification thresholds of children and adults are interpreted as reflecting age-related differences in speech processing rather than differences in responding to the test situation.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D006801:Humans; D010700:Phonetics; D011571:Psychoacoustics; D013067:Speech Perception