title: The influence of syllabic stress on children's speech reception thresholds.
abstract: One tape exemplar of each words cowboy, baseball, airplane, cupcake, popcorn, and hotdog spoken with natural (trochaic) and again with unnatural (spondaic) stress were selected from a pool to collect monaural SRTs by earphone in children. There were no significant differences due to type of stress, nor between boys and girls. Older children (N: 16, aged 5.0--6.0 yrs; SRT = --0.2 db HL) exhibited lower SRTs than younger (N: 16, aged 3.0--4.0 yrs; SRT = 3.2 db HL). It was informally observed that response, especially in younger Ss, tended (even when correct) to be at a slower rate, a condition to which the clinician should be alert.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D008297:Male; D011930:Reaction Time; D013061:Speech Acoustics; D013067:Speech Perception; D013069:Speech Reception Threshold Test