The Effects of Linguistic Complexity on Children's and Adults' Motor Programming of Speech.

Abbeduto, Leonard

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Publication Date: 1985

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The Effects of Linguistic Complexity on Children's and Adults' Motor Programming of Speech.

Abbeduto, Leonard

Language and Speech, v28 n4 p361-75 Oct-Dec 1985

The role of syntactic/semantic structure in the motor programing of speech by five-year-olds, eight-year-olds, and adults was investigated. Repetition durations were found to be shorter for simple than for complex sentences at all ages. However, linguistic complexity affected durational variability only for adults. (Author/SED)

Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Developmental Stages, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Listening Comprehension, Models, Psycholinguistics, Retention (Psychology), Sentence Structure, Speech Communication, Syllables, Young Children

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Language: English

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