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Direct linkSingh, Leher; Nestor, Sarah; Parikh, Chandni; Yull, Ashley – Infancy, 2009
When addressing infants, many adults adopt a particular type of speech, known as infant-directed speech (IDS). IDS is characterized by exaggerated intonation, as well as reduced speech rate, shorter utterance duration, and grammatical simplification. It is commonly asserted that IDS serves in part to facilitate language learning. Although…
Descriptors: Infants, Word Recognition, Long Term Memory, Verbal Stimuli
