Redford Melissa A
University of Oregon.
Appl Psycholinguist. 2013 Jul;34(3):569-589. doi: 10.1017/S0142716411000877.
The goals of the current study were (1) to assess differences in child and adult pausing, and (2) to determine whether characteristics of child and adult pausing can be explained by the same language variables. Spontaneous speech samples were obtained from ten 5-year-olds and their accompanying parent using a storytelling/retelling task. Analyses of pause frequency, duration, variation in durations, and pause location indicated that pause time decreased with retelling, but not with age group except when child and adult pausing was considered in its speech and language context. The results suggest that differences in child and adult pausing reflect differences in child and adult language, not in the cognitive resources allocated to language production.
（1）评估儿童和成人停顿的差异；（2）确定儿童和成人停顿的特征是否可以由相同的语言变量来解释。通过讲故事/复述任务，从十名5岁儿童及其陪同的家长那里获取了自发言语样本。对停顿频率、时长、时长变化和停顿位置的分析表明，停顿时间随着复述而减少，但不随年龄组而变化，除非在言语和语言背景中考虑儿童和成人的停顿情况。结果表明，儿童和成人停顿的差异反映了儿童和成人语言的差异，而非分配给语言产出的认知资源的差异。
