Children's Errors in the Perception of Casual Conversation

• Authors: Dzintra Bonda
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Slips of the ear or misperceptions occur when what a listener hears does not correspond to what a speaker has said. Adult misperceptions have provided information about the ways listeners use linguistic knowledge in understanding spoken language.The goal of the investigation is to examine children's slips of the ear, as a source of information about perception when knowledge of language is still developing.This report is based on over 1000 examples of slips of the ear occurring in casual conversation. The majority of slips have been contributed by interested friends, students and colleagues. The collection includes more than 100 perceptual errors for which children have been the listeners.Children's misperceptions resemble adult misperceptions, suggesting that children employ the same strategies and sources of information as adults do. However, children's misperceptions also suggest that they are operating with incomplete linguistic knowledge.

Keywords

EN

speech perception; child language; language acquisition; slip of the ear; casual speech

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Ad verba liberorum
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 4-10

Dates

published

2010-12-01

online

2012-08-21

Contributors

author

Dzintra Bonda

• Ohio University, USA

References

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10196-011-0014-1