The relationship between auditory-visual speech perception and language-specific speech perception at the onset of reading instruction in English-speaking children

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 120-138

  Erdener, Doǧu ^a   Burnham, Denis ^b  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Auditory visual speech perception; Children; Language specific speech perception; McGurk effect; Speech development; Visual speech

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY-VISUAL SPEECH PERCEPTION; CHILD; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE-SPECIFIC SPEECH PERCEPTION; MALE; MCGURK EFFECT; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; READING; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISION; VISUAL SPEECH;

AUDITORY-VISUAL SPEECH PERCEPTION; CHILDREN; LANGUAGE-SPECIFIC SPEECH PERCEPTION; MCGURK EFFECT; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; VISUAL SPEECH;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHONETICS; READING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84879184568     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2013.03.003     Document Type: Article

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