Variability in the Speech of Children in Dutch: A Phonetic Analysis of Vowel Consistency using Picture Naming ...

This paper examines the degree of consistency in the vowel production among children aged 4 to 12 and adult participants. The study employed picture naming tasks in recording the participants’ voices. The primary objective of this research was to investigate the hypothesis that vowel production becomes more consistent with increasing age. Two distinct tests were conducted for data analysis: a control test to assess the significance of differences between the adult and child participant groups, and a regression analysis to determine the significance of age-related effects within the child parti... Mehr ...