Thesis (Ph. D.)--Lehigh University, 2005. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-82).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Georgia State University, 2005. / Title from title screen. Rose Sevcik, committee chair; Robin Morris, Mary Ann Romski, Byron Robinson, committee members. 194 p. [numbered xii, 180] ; ill. (some col.) Description based on contents viewed Feb. 26, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-180).

The developmental process of audiovisual speech perception was examined in this experiment using the McGurk paradigm (McGurk & MacDonald, 1976), in which a visual recording of a person saying a particular syllable is synchronized with the auditory presentation of another syllable. Previous studies have shown that audiovisual speech perception in adults and older children is very influenced by the visual speech information but children under five are influenced by the auditory input almost exclusively (McGurk & MacDonald, 1976; Massaro, 1984; and Massaro, Thompson, Barron, & Laren, 1986). In this investigation 46 children aged between 4:7 and 12:4, and 15 adults were presented with conflicting audiovisual syllables made according to the McGurk paradigm. The results indicated that the influence of auditory information decreased with age, while the influence of visual information increased with age. In addition, an adult-like response pattern was observed in only half of the children in the oldest child subject group (10-12 years old) suggesting that the integration of auditory and visual speech information continues to develop beyond the age of twelve.

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by Wong Mui Fong. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 41-48). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.2 / TABLE OF CONTENT --- p.3 / LIST OF TABLES --- p.4 / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.5 / ABSTRACT --- p.6 / ABSTRACT (CHI) --- p.7 / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- PROCESSING OF SPEECH IN CHINESE CHILDREN WITH DIFFERENT READING ABILITIES: AN FMRI STUDY --- p.8 / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- METHOD --- p.18 / Participants --- p.18 / Imaging Technique --- p.18 / Other Apparatus --- p.18 / Procedure --- p.19 / Testing --- p.19 / Data Analysis --- p.22 / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- RESULTS --- p.23 / Behavior data --- p.23 / Functional MRI data-group data --- p.24 / Functional MRI data-individual data --- p.32 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- DISCUSSION --- p.36 / REFERENCES --- p.41 / APPENDIX 1 --- p.49

Yim, Nga Kin Edward. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 46-53). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Table Captions --- p.v / Figure Captions --- p.vi / Abstract --- p.vii / Chapter Chapter 1: --- Introduction --- p.1 / "The ""Awareness"" Approach to Tapping Influence of Morphemes" --- p.2 / "Inadequacies of the ""Awareness"" Approach" --- p.6 / "The ""Processing"" Approach to Tapping Influence of Morphemes" --- p.7 / Measuring Eye Movements in Linguistic Research --- p.10 / The Present Study --- p.13 / Chapter Chapter 2: --- Method --- p.15 / Participants --- p.15 / Stimuli and Apparatus --- p.16 / Design and Procedure --- p.19 / Data Analyses --- p.20 / Chapter Chapter 3: --- Results --- p.22 / Literacy Tasks --- p.22 / Experimental Session 1 (Picture) --- p.23 / Experimental Session 2 (Printed Words) --- p.28 / Comparison between Picture and Printed Word session --- p.32 / Chapter Chapter 4: --- Discussion --- p.34 / Reliability and Validity of the Measure --- p.34 / Grade Differences in Morphemic Processing --- p.35 / Mechanisms of Morphemic Ambiguity Resolution and Speech Processing in Children --- p.38 / Stimulus Differences --- p.41 / Chapter Chapter 5: --- Conclusion --- p.43 / Theoretical and Methodological Contributions --- p.43 / Limitations and Future Directions --- p.44 / References --- p.46 / Appendix --- p.54

The purpose of this study was to compare the speechreading abilities of elementary school-age children with mild to severe articulation disorders with those of children with normal articulation. Speechreading ability, as determined by a speechreading test, indicates how well a person recognizes the visual cues of speech. Speech sounds that have similar visual characteristics have been defined as visemes by Jackson in 1988 and can be categorized into distinct groups based on their place of articulation. A relationship between recognition of these visemes and correct articulation was first proposed by Woodward and Barber in 1960. Dodd, in 1983, noted that speechread information shows a child how to produce a sound, while aural input simply offers a target at which to aim.

This research compared Brown and Levinson’s “face saving” account of linguistic politeness with the everyday or social normative account in the context of children’s requesting skills. The research also explored the relationship between children’s politeness skills and their behavioural adjustment. The subjects comprised four groups of ten-and-a-half year old children: a comparison group without behaviour problems, a hostile-aggressive group; an anxious-fearful group; and a comorbid group. All the children were selected from the Australian Temperament Project subject population based on parents’ ratings of the children on the hostile-aggressive and anxious-fearful subscales of the Rutter Child Behaviour Questionnaire. Study 1 found that all the groups of children discriminated between others on the power and distance dimensions in ways consistent with social norms, e.g. adults are judged as more powerful than children. Study 1 also showed that the hostile-aggressive and comorbid groups were significantly less likely to discriminate between others on these dimensions compared to the comparison group. Study 2 showed that for all the children studied politeness as a normative way of speaking was marked by use of please whereas face saving politeness was marked by the use of question directives and hints compared to other request forms. Further, Study 2 showed that there were no differences between children with and without behaviour problems in their use of please to mark different ways of asking.