Audiovisual Speech Perception in Children With Developmental Language Disorder in Degraded Listening Conditions.

Purpose: The effect of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) on the perception of audiovisual speech in children with and without developmental language disorder (DLD)was investigated by varying the noise level and the sound intensity of acoustic speech. The main hypotheses were that the McGurk effect (in...

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Published in:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 56; no. 1; pp. 211 - 222
Main Authors: Meronen, Auli, Tiippana, Kaisa, Westerholm, Jari, Ahonen, Timo, Oetting, Janna, Joanisse, Marc
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Published: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Feb2013
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          Meronen, Auli
          Tiippana, Kaisa
          Westerholm, Jari
          Ahonen, Timo
          Oetting, Janna
          Joanisse, Marc
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          Niilo Mäki Institute, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
          Institute of Behavioural Sciences (Psychology), University of Helsinki, Finland
          University of Jyväskylä, Finland
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        Analysis of variance
        Developmental disabilities
        Psychological tests
        Audiovisual materials
        Experimental design
        Language disorders in children
        Neuropsychological tests
        Noise
        Probability theory
        Statistical sampling
        Sound
        Physiological aspects of speech
        Speech perception in children
        Statistics
        Data analysis
        Repeated measures design
        Descriptive statistics
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          Analysis of variance
          Developmental disabilities
          Psychological tests
          Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling
          Audiovisual materials
          Experimental design
          Language disorders in children
          Neuropsychological tests
          Noise
          Probability theory
          Statistical sampling
          Sound
          Physiological aspects of speech
          Speech perception in children
          Statistics
          Data analysis
          Repeated measures design
          Descriptive statistics
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        audiovisual speech perception
        developmental language disorders
        McGurk effect
        specific language impairment
        speech perception
        audiovisual speech perception
        developmental language disorders
        McGurk effect
        specific language impairment
        speech perception
      ab: Purpose: The effect of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) on the perception of audiovisual speech in children with and without developmental language disorder (DLD)was investigated by varying the noise level and the sound intensity of acoustic speech. The main hypotheses were that the McGurk effect (in which incongruent visual speech alters the auditory speech percept) would be weaker for children with DLD than for controls and that it would get stronger with decreasing SNR in both groups. Method: The participants were 8-year-old children with DLD and a sample of children with normal language development. In the McGurk stimuli, the consonant uttered by the voice differed from that articulated by the face. Three sound intensities (24, 36, and 48 dB) and noise levels (-12, 0, and +6 dB) were used. Perception of unisensory visual speech was also measured. Results: The children with DLD experienced a weak McGurk effect, that is, a weak influence of visual speech on audiovisual speech perception, which remained rather constant across SNR levels. The children with DLD were inaccurate at lipreading. Conclusions: Children with DLD have problems in perceiving spoken consonants presented audiovisually and visually. The weaker McGurk effect could be accounted for by the poorer lipreading ability of children with DLD.
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