Bent Tessa
Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences,Indiana University,200 S. Jordan Ave.,Bloomington,IN, 47405.
J Child Lang. 2018 Nov;45(6):1400-1411. doi: 10.1017/S0305000918000053. Epub 2018 Apr 5.
School-age children's understanding of unfamiliar accents is not adult-like and the age at which this ability fully matures is unknown. To address this gap, eight- to fifteen-year-old children's (n = 74) understanding of native- and non-native-accented sentences in quiet and noise was assessed. Children's performance was adult-like by eleven to twelve years for the native accent in noise and by fourteen to fifteen years for the non-native accent in quiet. However, fourteen- to fifteen-year old's performance was not adult-like for the non-native accent in noise. Thus, adult-like comprehension of unfamiliar accents may require greater exposure to linguistic variability or additional cognitive-linguistic growth.
学龄儿童对不熟悉口音的理解并不像成年人那样，这种能力完全成熟的年龄尚不清楚。为了填补这一空白，研究人员评估了8至15岁儿童（n = 74）在安静和有噪音环境中对带有母语和非母语口音句子的理解。对于有噪音环境中的母语口音，儿童在11至12岁时的表现与成年人相似；对于安静环境中的非母语口音，儿童在14至15岁时的表现与成年人相似。然而，对于有噪音环境中的非母语口音，14至15岁儿童的表现并不像成年人那样。因此，要达到像成年人一样对不熟悉口音的理解，可能需要更多地接触语言变异性或额外的认知语言发展。
