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The Role of Selected Auditory Skills in the Misarticulation of /s/, /r/ and /0/ by Third Grade Children
Author(s) -
SCHISSEL RICHARD J.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
international journal of language and communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.101
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1460-6984
pISSN - 1368-2822
DOI - 10.3109/13682828009011378
Subject(s) - psychology , echoic memory , consonant , audiology , vowel , cognition , speech recognition , medicine , neuroscience , computer science
In this study, the relationship of echoic memory, speech sound discrimination and speed of auditory processing to the consistency of correct production of certain speech sounds was examined. Thirty‐seven children representing third grade normal and /s/, /r/ and /θ/ defective speakers served as subjects. Each subject listened to tapes of pairs of vowel‐consonant‐consonant‐vowel bisyllables under each of three conditions: (1) .25 seconds between bisyllables; (2) 2.0 seconds between bisyllables; and (3) 10.0 seconds between the bisyllables in each pair. The subjects' task was to determine whether the bisyllables in each pair were the same or different. Results of statistical analyses on the proportion of correct responses indicated that production errors on different sounds may be associated with different auditory skills. The findings are related to previous investigations of speech sound discrimination skills in articulatory defective children. Clinical implications also are discussed.