Who speaks “kid?” How experience with children does (and does not) shape the intelligibility of child speech.
Madeleine E. Yu, Angela M. Cooper, Elizabeth K. Johnson · Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance · 2023
= 50) on how intelligible they found their own child versus another child. Contrary to previous claims, we find no evidence for an experience-based general child speech intelligibility advantage. However, we do find that mothers understand their own child best. We also observe a general task advantage by SLPs. Our findings demonstrate that routine (and even extensive) exposure to children may not make all children more intelligible, but that it may instead make particular children one has experience with more intelligible. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).