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    Acoustic and Perceptual Measurements of 3- and 4-Year Old Children's Productions of Word-Initial /ɹ/ and /w/
    (2023-05-18) Ancel, Elizabeth E; Smith, Michael L; Rao, V. N. Vimal; Munson, Benjamin; ancel014@umn.edu; Ancel, Elizabeth E; University of Minnesota Studies in the Applied Sociolinguistics of Speech and Language Lab
    This data contains acoustic and perceptual measurements of 3- and 4-year-old children's productions of /ɹ/- and /w/- initial words. Young children's production of the /ɹ/ sound is highly variable and often inaccurate, with [w] as the most common substitution error. One acoustic indicator of the goodness of children’s /ɹ/ productions is the difference between the frequency of the second formant (F2) and third formant (F3), with a smaller F3-F2 difference being associated with a perceptually more adult-like /ɹ/. This data contains both automatically extracted F3-F2 differences for the full set of 117 children, as well as manual measurements of a subset of the children (n=14). Additionally, this data contains untrained listeners' perceptual measurements of the children's productions for comparison.