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Presenter:Leya Tsai蔡小鈴Instructor: Dr. Pi-Ying Teresa Hsu

Oct. 20, 2008

Children’s Recognition of Cartoon Voices

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Citation

Spence, J. S., Rollins, R. P., & Jerger, S. (2002). Children’s recognition of cartoon voices. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 45(1), 214-222.

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Contents

I. Introduction

II. Rationale

III. Method

IV.Results & Discussion

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Introduction

Talker attributes influence the processing of speech in adult listeners.

(Nygaard & Pisoni, 1998)

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Introduction

3- to 5-year-old children were more accurate on word recognition tasks produced by a single talker.

(Ryalls & Pisoni, 1997)

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Introduction

This study examined differences in talker recognition skills of 3- to 5-year-old children.

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Rationale

1.Preschool children encode certain types of information via implicit learning.

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Rationale

2. The face-recognition model (Bruce & Young, 1986)

see a person’s facerecall the person’s personal attributes

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Method

Age Number

3 years old 24

4 years old 24

5 years old 24

Participants

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Method

Picture stimuli: 20 target characters and 40 foil characters from popular children’s TV and video programs

Picture stimuli were presented with each voice sample.

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Method

X 10 pieces

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Method

Voice stimuli : 20 target cartoon characters’ voices recorded onto tape

Each character produced two utterances.

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Method

Procedure

seat at a table

play the tape

answer

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Method

Correct Answer

Wrong Answer

more familiar character

less familiar character

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Results & Discussion

The apparent difference of percentage rate between the ages of 3 and 4 years

0102030405060708090

100

3 4 5

MoreFamiliarLess Familiar

percentage

age

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Results & Discussion

Children recognized voices of cartoon characters they had experienced through their daily activities.

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Results & Discussion

Children’s ability to encode and recognize words rapidly develop in preschool children.

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Results & Discussion

Children’s ability to recognize vocal sources may be an important aid to the development of spoken word recognition.

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