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Quigley, Jean; Nixon, Elizabeth; Lawson, Sarah – Journal of Child Language, 2019
The objective of this study was to examine the links between prosodic features of paternal Infant-Directed Speech (IDS) and child characteristics. Pitch variability measures were extracted from the speech samples of 50 fathers during unstructured play with their two-year-old children. Evidence for a link between child receptive language ability…
Descriptors: Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Receptive Language, Fathers
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Redford, Melissa A.; Oh, Grace E. – Journal of Child Language, 2016
The current study investigated school-aged children's internalization of the distributional patterns of English lexical stress as a function of vocabulary size. Sixty children (5;3 to 8;3) participated in the study. The children were asked to blend two individually presented, equally stressed syllables to produce disyllabic nonwords with different…
Descriptors: Child Language, Lexicology, Suprasegmentals, Vocabulary