Speech rate and perceived language ability in bilingual school-age children
| dc.contributor.advisor | Bedore, Lisa M. | en |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Byrd, Courtney | en |
| dc.creator | Webb, Sarah Lyn | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-07-08T19:42:07Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2011-07-08T19:42:07Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-05 | en |
| dc.date.submitted | May 2011 | en |
| dc.date.updated | 2011-07-08T19:42:11Z | en |
| dc.description | text | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Clinicians and teachers may associate slow speech rate with low language ability during assessment in bilingual children. The goals of this thesis are a) to understand the relationship between speech rate and perceived language ability, and b) to understand the causes of within-utterance pauses and between-utterance pauses. English narratives for 116 Spanish–English bilingual 4–6-year-olds were analyzed for speech rate and pause time. Modifiability scores for each child were obtained. There was a low but significant correlation between speech rate and child responsivity. The distribution of between-utterance pauses was significantly different for children with high speech rates and children with low speech rates. An average of 56.5 wpm was found, confirming speech rates averages found in similar studies. These findings suggest that speech rate is one feature that SLPs attend to when considering the responsiveness of a child. Also, long between-utterance pauses can be used as an indicator of low speech rate. | en |
| dc.description.department | Communication Sciences and Disorders | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.slug | 2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3229 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3229 | en |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en |
| dc.subject | Speech rate | en |
| dc.subject | Bilingual children | en |
| dc.subject | Speech disorders | en |
| dc.subject | Speech-language pathology | en |
| dc.subject | Bilingualism | en |
| dc.subject | Spanish language speakers | en |
| dc.subject | English language speakers | en |
| dc.subject | Pauses | en |
| dc.title | Speech rate and perceived language ability in bilingual school-age children | en |
| dc.type.genre | thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.department | Communication Sciences and Disorders | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Communication Sciences and Disorders | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Texas at Austin | en |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Arts | en |