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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 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
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).