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The Effects of Linguistic Complexity On Children's and Adults' Motor Programming of Speech

Author(s) -

Leonard Abbeduto

Publication year - 1985

Publication title -

language and speech

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.713

H-Index - 52

eISSN - 1756-6053

pISSN - 0023-8309

DOI - 10.1177/002383098502800402

Subject(s) - repetition (rhetorical device) , sentence , linguistics , psychology , linguistic sequence complexity , rhythm , duration (music) , computer science , speech recognition , audiology , natural language processing , medicine , art , philosophy , literature

The role of syntactic/semantic structure in the motor programming of speech by 5-year-olds, 8-year olds, and adults was investigated. Subjects repeated sentences, each at maximum rate, on numerous, consecutive trials. Linguistically simple and complex sentence types, matched on rhythm, were selected for each age. On a current model, linguistic structure determines programming unit size with increased size resulting in shorter and less variable repetition durations. Repetition durations were found to be shorter for simple than for complex sentences at all ages. However, linguistic complexity affected durational variability only for adults. A new model is proposed to account for these results.

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