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
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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).