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KMID : 1022420090010030163
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences
2009 Volume.1 No. 3 p.163 ~ p.168
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A Study on the Speech Rates of 5- to 7-Year-old Children Depending upon their Tasks
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Shin Myung-Sun
Ahn Jong-Bok
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Abstract
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This study investigated the determination of speech rates, words per minute (WPM) and syllables per minute (SPM), of 5~7 year-old normal children to understand if there are any differences in the rates according to the children’s age and sex. All participants were required to conduct story retelling tasks (SRT) and picture description tasks (PDT). In SRT, there was a significant difference between the groups of 5 year-old and 7 year-old children on WPM. However, there was no significant difference between the groups of ages regarding SPM. In addition, there was no significant difference between the groups according to sex on WPM and SPM. In PDT, there was no significant difference between the groups according to their ages and sex on WPM and SPM. The current research found that the speech rates of the preschool children might be somewhat different in their utterance abilities according to their age, but there was no obvious difference according to their sex. The findings can advance development of a clinical tool to screen children with fluency disorders and to determine the steps in establishing speech rates of children in the language development period.
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KEYWORD
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speech rates, word per minute, syllable per minute, fluency disorders, language development
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