| dc.description.abstract | It has been proposed that young children, in contrast to
adults, may have a perceptual preference for transitional
cues as compared to other more static cues. However,
it appears that the extent to which children make use of
transitional information as compared to adults may change
with consonantal context. In perception of fricative contrasts
(e.g. /su/–/ u/) young children are more influenced
by vowel–onset formant transitions, relative to frequency
of frication noise, than are older children and adults. But,
in identifying the voice onset time contrast /da/–/ta/, children
appear to pay less attention to transitional information,
relative to the duration of silence, than adults. Possible explanations
for these discrepant results are discussed. | en |
