Does the speaker's voice quality influence children's performance on a language comprehension test?

International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 63-73

  Lyberg Åhlander, Viveka ^a   Haake, Magnus ^b   Brännström, Jonas ^a   Schötz, Susanne ^c   Sahlén, Birgitta ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Centre for Languages and Literature   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Children; Cognitive capacity; Language comprehension; Occupational voice; Voice perception; Voice quality; Working memory

Indexed keywords

AGE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; DYSPHONIA; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; MEMORY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOICE;

AGE FACTORS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPREHENSION; DYSPHONIA; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MEMORY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 84921370463     PISSN: 17549515     EISSN: 17549507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17549507.2014.898098     Document Type: Article

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