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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 14.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Sci. 2001 Dec 25;3(2):148–162. doi: 10.1111/1467-7687.00108

Table 3.

Percentage of correct judgments of paralinguistic content by 4-year-olds as a function of stimulus and speech format

Lexical content Paralinguistic content Speech format
Filtered Reiterant Full
You’ll never behave yourself Angry 48 52 91
Don’t play around with me child Angry 58 77 91
You’re being punished you stay right there Angry 55 82 94
Oh good you got them all Happy 61 77 80
You play very well Happy 48 63 82
You’re my favorite person Happy 58 77 87
You’ll never behave yourself Happy 61 64 55
Don’t play around with me child Happy 60 64 25
You’re being punished you stay right there Happy 61 83 41
Oh good you got them all Angry 48 76 36
You play very well Angry 43 73 27
You’re my favorite person Angry 45 66 38

Note: Values represent proportion of children correct (out of 28).