Marimon Tarter, MireiaHöhle, Barbara2025-11-112025-11-112022Marimon M, Höhle B. Testing prosodic development with the Headturn Preference Procedure: a test-retest reliability study. Infant Child Dev. 2022 Nov;31(6):e2362. DOI: 10.1002/icd.23621522-7227http://hdl.handle.net/10230/71848The Headturn Preference Procedure (HPP) is widely used in infant research. Previous studies have shown that speech perception measures obtained with HPP are related to later language skills which may make them a potential instrument for an early detection of developmental language risks. The present study assessed the reliability and stability of this measure by testing 6-month-old German-learning infants with the HPP in three sessions each separated by 1 week. Significant correlations were found between the overall looking times across test sessions but not between the differences in looking times for different test conditions. The results underline limitations but also the potential of using early speech perception measures as diagnostic tools.application/pdfeng© 2022 The Authors. Infant and Child Development published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1002/icd.2362Headturn Preference ProcedureProsodic developmentSpeech perceptionTest-retest reliabilityinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess