Intelligibility of children's speech

[Nick Riches]

Dear Mats

I attended a very interesting talk by Sara Howard, a clinical
phonetician at Sheffield university, in which she gave a demonstration
of a single child's utterance which was completely unintelligible
without a context, but completely intelligible with the context. In
fact it made the audience gasp! She might be a good person to
approach.

Nick Riches

University of Reading

On Feb 3, 8:41 pm, Mats Andrén <mats.and... at ling.lu.se> wrote:
> Dear list members,
>
> A few years ago I read an article or a book where it was stated that X
> percent (a large number) of children's utterances became more or less
> completely unitelligible when the video is taken away. That is, removing
> the visible context and action/gesture et cetera and relying only on the
> audio signal as a source of interpretation. I can't recall who wrote it
> (it *could* have been Eve Clark or Jana Iverson). Neither am I able to
> remember whether it was a result of an experimental study of some kind,
> or some more sweeping approximation. I also do not remember the age of
> the children involved, but it should have been some time during their
> second year of life (maybe earlier). Precisely due to all this
> uncertainity, I would be most grateful if any of you would be able to
> point me to information about these matters. Any publication that deals
> with this question is of interest.
>
> Have a nice day!
>
> Best regards,
> Mats Andr n,
> PhD student in General Linguistics,
> Centre for Languages and Literature/Centre for Cognitive Semiotics,
> Lund University,
> Sweden

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