期刊论文

Chen, Liang

英文

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

0269-9206

2017

31

7-9

514-525

10.1080/02699206.2016.1277391

This work was supported partially by the University of Georgia COE Faculty Summer Research Grant to the first author (grant number 13YJA740023) from the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China and from Hubei Provincial Department of Education to the second author (grant number 14ZD005), as well as from the China National Social Science Foundation (grant number 15BYY069).

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The present study aimed to investigate the development of visual speech perception in Chinese-speaking children. Children aged 7, 13 and 16 were asked to visually identify both consonant and vowel sounds in Chinese as quickly and accurately as possible. Results revealed (1) an increase in accuracy of visual speech perception between ages 7 and 13 after which the accuracy rate either stagnates or drops; and (2) a U-shaped development pattern in speed of perception with peak performance in 13-year olds. Results also showed that across all age gro...