Journal of Phonetics & Audiology
Open Access
ISSN: 2471-9455
ISSN: 2471-9455
Suzanne C. Purdy
New Zealand
Research Article
Prosody Perception in Typically Developing School-aged Children
Author(s): Rose Thomas Kalathottukaren and Suzanne C. PurdyRose Thomas Kalathottukaren and Suzanne C. Purdy
Purpose: To report normative data for prosody perception abilities in typically developing school-aged children. Method: Four receptive prosody subtests of the Profiling Elements of Prosody in Speech-Communication (PEPSC) and the Child Paralanguage subtest of Diagnostic Analysis of Non Verbal Accuracy 2 (DANVA 2) were administered to 45 children divided into three age groups, with mean ages 7.84, 10.13, and 11.90 years. Results: Overall results indicated significant age-related improvements in performance on PEPS-C Chunking and Contrastive Stress Reception subtests. Accuracy for emotion recognition differed significantly across the two levels of emotion intensity for the DANVA 2. High emotion intensity items yielded better accuracy compared to low intensity items. A confusion matrix for the DANVA 2 showed that errors wer.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2471-9455.1000131