Table 4.
Percentage of correct judgments of paralinguistic content by 7-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 | 75 | 68 | 100 |
| Don’t play around with me child | Angry | 82 | 94 | 100 |
| You’re being punished you stay right there | Angry | 87 | 100 | 98 |
| Oh good you got them all | Happy | 70 | 89 | 98 |
| You play very well | Happy | 60 | 100 | 100 |
| You’re my favorite person | Happy | 89 | 86 | 100 |
| You’ll never behave yourself | Happy | 80 | 87 | 66 |
| Don’t play around with me child | Happy | 64 | 96 | 36 |
| You’re being punished you stay right there | Happy | 66 | 98 | 60 |
| Oh good you got them all | Angry | 73 | 88 | 75 |
| You play very well | Angry | 53 | 92 | 27 |
| You’re my favorite person | Angry | 75 | 100 | 73 |
Note: Values represent proportion correct (out of 28).