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Sentence comprehension in two age groups of children as related to pause position or the absence of pauses.
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Sentences recorded with pauses at major phrase boundaries, pauses within major phrases boundaries, and with no pauses were presented to 18 children with a mean age of three years, eight months, and six months.Abstract:
Sentences recorded with pauses at major phrase boundaries, pauses within major phrase boundaries, and with no pauses were presented to 18 children with a mean age of three years, eight months, and ...read more
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Influence of linguistic complexity, rate of presentation, and interphrase pause time on auditory-verbal comprehension of adult aphasic patients
TL;DR: Comprehension performance of 15 aphasic adults was studied while altering the rate of speech presentation and varying the pause time between the major phrases within sentences of increasing grammatical complexity.
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Deficits in acquiring language structure: The importance of using prosodic cues
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated and supported the hypothesis that specifically language-impaired (SLI) children have deficits in processing and using the rhythmic-prosodic structure of speech and that these deficits impede the implicit learning of formal regularities of input language.
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Comprehension of Spoken Language by Normal Children as a Function of Speaking Rate, Sentence Difficulty, and Listener Age and Sex.
TL;DR: This article found that comprehension of spoken language was facilitated by increased age, reduced sentence difficulty, and reduced speaking rate for 360 children between the ages of 5-6 and 9-6 with a picture identification task.
The Effect of Digitally Shortening and Lengthening Pauses on Listening Comprehension
TL;DR: For certain sections of the Listening Comprehension Test, it was concluded that that presentation rate could be increased (via pause length shortening) without loss of comprehension—in other words, that listening efficiency could be increase.
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Word Segmentation and Intelligibility, Parental Simplification, and Frequency and Amount of Language Input
TL;DR: Three issues that have been identified by language scholars as critical components children’s learning of their first language are (1) auditory segmentation of words in running speech, (2) simplification of language units in the early stages of language learning, and (3) the amount of language input.