title: Interobserver agreement of perceived intelligibility of magnitude of r in children.
abstract: This study was designed to test whether independent listeners could correctly classify 162 stimuli (words) that started with a multiple trill, magnitude of r, followed by a vowel magnitude of a. The sounds were from 27 Spanish children between the ages of 3.0 and 6.6 years, pronouncing Spanish words current in their vocabulary. Twelve listeners were presented with the recordings of the children's magnitude of r production and were instructed to rate the intelligibility of the pronounced sound as high, medium, or low. Inter-rater agreement ranged from 85 to 96%. Analyses of variance for each of the three production categories showed that there were significant differences, so it seems possible to classify the words starting with a trilled magnitude of r based on auditory-perceptual features into three broad categories according to intelligibility.
authors.affiliation: University of Granada, Spain.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Carballo
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mendoza
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Valencia-Naranjo
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015588:Observer Variation; D010700:Phonetics; D013062:Speech Articulation Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013065:Speech Intelligibility