title: Children's spontaneous and imitative speech: an acoustic-phonetic analysis.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to compare the voice onset time of voiced and voiceless stop consonants in children's spontaneous and imitative speech. Ten children (2:3 to 3:8) were recorded producing the same test words spontaneously and imitatively, following a model. There were no statistically significant differences between imitative and spontaneous productions.
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007100:Imitative Behavior; D007804:Language Development; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D013068:Speech Production Measurement