Language Ability and the Familiar Talker Advantage: Generalizing to Unfamiliar Talkers Is What Matters.
Purpose: Previous studies with children and adults have demonstrated a familiar talker advantage--better word recognition for familiar talkers. The goal of the current study was to test whether this phenomenon is modulated by a child's language ability. Method: Sixty children with a range of languag...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 62; no. 5; pp. 1427 - 1437 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
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