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The purpose of this investigation was to examine the peculiarities of recognition by native speakers of a lexical word meaning of Russian 2-8 years old children. Significant improvement of recognition by adult native speakers of words meaning of 8 years old children in comparison with 2-7 years old children’s is established. It was shown that by 7 years stressed vowels in words are significant longer than unstressed vowels; pitch values do not differ in stressed and unstressed vowels, that relevant for Russian. By 7 years accuracy of articulation of vowels, by 8 years - most correct articulation of the majority of consonants is formed. The relation between child’s age articulation skills and the word meaning recognition by native speakers are discussed.
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Lyakso, E., Bednaya, E., Grigorev, A. (2013). Auditory and Spectrographic Analysis of the Words of 2-8 Years-Old Russian Children. In: Železný, M., Habernal, I., Ronzhin, A. (eds) Speech and Computer. SPECOM 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8113. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01931-4_8
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