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Study may have a say on Speech
By Elliot Ferguson/The Whig-Standard
Ewen MacDonald, who is now an associate professor at the Technical University of Denmark, co-authored a study of the speech development of two- and four-year-old children.
The study was completed with Queen’s psychology professor Kevin Munhall and assistant professor Elizabeth Johnson from the University of Toronto psychology department.
The study showed that, like adults, four-year-old children monitor their own voice and alter the sounds of the words they make.
What was surprising was that two-year-old children do not alter their speech according to what they hear.
Thus, it was the thought that counted for the toddlers, not the end result.
The researchers' findings were published in the April issue of Psy- chological Science.
Gazette - April 29, 2010 issue (article page 9)
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