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Direct linkMarina Kalashnikova; Leher Singh; Angeline Tsui; Eylem Altuntas; Denis Burnham; Ryan Cannistraci; Ng Bee Chin; Ye Feng; Laura Fernández-Merino; Antonia Götz; Lisa Gustavsson; Jessica Hay; Barbara Höhle; René Kager; Regine Lai; Liquan Liu; Ellen Marklund; Thierry Nazzi; Daniela Santos Oliveira; Anne Marte Haug Olstad; Anthony Picaud; Iris-Corinna Schwarz; Feng-Ming Tsao; Patrick C. M. Wong; Pei Jun Woo – Developmental Science, 2024
We report the findings of a multi-language and multi-lab investigation of young infants' ability to discriminate lexical tones as a function of their native language, age and language experience, as well as of tone properties. Given the high prevalence of lexical tones across human languages, understanding lexical tone acquisition is fundamental…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Infants, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
Angelica Buerkin-Pontrelli; Daniel Swingley – Developmental Science, 2025
When infants hear sentences containing unfamiliar words, are some language-world links (such as noun-object) more readily formed than others (verb-predicate)? We examined English learning 14-15-month-olds' capacity for linking referents in scenes with bisyllabic nonce utterances. Each of the two syllables referred either to the object's identity,…
Descriptors: Infants, Phrase Structure, Verbs, Language Acquisition
Irena Lovcevic; Denis Burnham; Marina Kalashnikova – Language Learning and Development, 2024
There is a long-standing debate in the literature about the benefits that acoustic components of Infant Directed Speech (IDS) might have for infants' language acquisition. One of the highly contested features is vowel space expansion, which refers to the enlargement of the acoustic space between the corner vowels /i, u, a/ in IDS compared to Adult…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Monolingualism, Speech Communication
Testing Prosodic Development with the Headturn Preference Procedure: A Test-Retest Reliability Study
Marimon, Mireia; Höhle, Barbara – Infant and Child Development, 2022
The 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…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Infant Behavior, Motor Reactions
Graf Estes, Katharine; Antovich, Dylan M.; Verde, Erica L. – Journal of Child Language, 2021
This research investigates selectivity in word learning for bilingual infants. Previous work demonstrated that bilingual infants show greater openness to non-native language sounds in object labels than monolinguals (Hay et al., 2015; Singh, 2018). It remains unclear whether bilingual openness extends to nonspeech sounds. We presented 14- and…
Descriptors: Infants, Bilingualism, Vocabulary Development, Second Languages
Audun Rosslund; Silje Hagelund; Julien Mayor; Natalia Kartushina – Journal of Child Language, 2023
Previous research on infant-directed speech (IDS) and its role in infants' language development has largely focused on mothers, with fathers being investigated scarcely. Here we examine the acoustics of IDS as compared to adult-directed speech (ADS) in Norwegian mothers and fathers to 8-month-old infants, and whether these relate to direct…
Descriptors: Mothers, Fathers, Parent Child Relationship, Picture Books
Iris-Corinna Schwarz; Ellen Marklund; Ulrika Marklund; Lisa Gustavsson; Christa Lam-Cassettari – Language Learning and Development, 2024
Infant-directed speech (IDS) is characterized by a range of register-typical characteristics. Many of those can be objectively measured, such as acoustic-prosodic and structural-linguistic modifications. Perceived vocal affect, however, is a socio-emotional IDS characteristic and is subjectively assessed. Vocal affect goes beyond acoustic-prosodic…
Descriptors: Infants, Swedish, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
Wang, Luchang; Kalashnikova, Marina; Kager, René; Lai, Regine; Wong, Patrick C. M. – Journal of Child Language, 2021
The functions of acoustic-phonetic modifications in infant-directed speech (IDS) remain a question: do they specifically serve to facilitate language learning via enhanced phonemic contrasts (the hyperarticulation hypothesis) or primarily to improve communication via prosodic exaggeration (the prosodic hypothesis)? The study of lexical tones…
Descriptors: Phonology, Sino Tibetan Languages, Phonemics, Intonation
Benders, Titia; St. George, Jennifer; Fletcher, Richard – Language Learning and Development, 2021
Although both fathers and mothers speak differently in infant-directed speech (IDS) compared to adult-directed speech (ADS), the acoustic characteristics of present-day paternal IDS are still insufficiently understood. To extend this understanding, 11 fathers and 17 mothers in The Netherlands were recorded interacting with their infant…
Descriptors: Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Fathers, Foreign Countries
Wang, Luchang; Kager, René; Wong, Patrick C. M. – First Language, 2022
The acoustic properties of infant-directed speech (IDS) have been widely studied, but whether and how young learners' language development benefits from individual properties remains to be confirmed. This study investigated whether toddlers' word processing was affected by tone hyperarticulation in the IDS of a tone language. Nineteen- and…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Intonation, Word Recognition, Task Analysis
Cruz Blandón, María Andrea; Cristia, Alejandrina; Räsänen, Okko – Cognitive Science, 2023
Computational models of child language development can help us understand the cognitive underpinnings of the language learning process, which occurs along several linguistic levels at once (e.g., prosodic and phonological). However, in light of the replication crisis, modelers face the challenge of selecting representative and consolidated infant…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Infants, Language Acquisition, Computational Linguistics
Piazza, Giorgio; Martin, Clara D.; Kalashnikova, Marina – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: This scoping review considers the acoustic features of a clear speech register directed to nonnative listeners known as foreigner-directed speech (FDS). We identify vowel hyperarticulation and low speech rate as the most representative acoustic features of FDS; other features, including wide pitch range and high intensity, are still under…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Speech Communication, Vowels, Articulation (Speech)
Kalashnikova, Marina; Onsuwan, Chutamanee; Burnham, Denis – Language Learning and Development, 2022
Non-tone language infants' native language recognition is based first on supra-segmental then segmental cues, but this trajectory is unknown for tone-language infants. This study investigated non-tone (English) and tone (Thai) language 6- to 10-month-old infants' preference for English vs. Thai one-syllable words (containing segmental and tone…
Descriptors: Intonation, Phonology, Tone Languages, Language Acquisition
Feng, Ye; Kager, René; Lai, Regine; Wong, Patrick C. M. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
The ability to map similar sounding words to different meanings alone is far from enough for successful speech processing. To overcome variability in the speech signal, young learners must also recognize words across surface variations. Previous studies have shown that infants at 14 months are able to use variations in word-internal cues (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Infants, Developmental Stages, Phonology, Intonation
