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Alexandra S. Dylman; Marie-France Champoux-Larsson; Candice Frances – Educational Psychology, 2025
We report four experiments investigating the effect of prosody on listening comprehension in 11-13-year-old children. Across all experiments, participants listened to short object descriptions and answered content-based questions about said objects. In Experiments 1-3, the descriptions were read in an emotionally positive or neutral tone of voice.…
Descriptors: Intonation, Middle School Students, Foreign Countries, Listening Comprehension
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Hincks, Rebecca; Edlund, Jens – Language Learning & Technology, 2009
This paper investigates learner response to a novel kind of intonation feedback generated from speech analysis. Instead of displays of pitch curves, our feedback is flashing lights that show how much pitch variation the speaker has produced. The variable used to generate the feedback is the standard deviation of fundamental frequency as measured…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Control Groups, Intonation, Responses