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Cox, Christopher; Dideriksen, Christina; Keren-Portnoy, Tamar; Roepstorff, Andreas; Christiansen, Morten H.; Fusaroli, Riccardo – Child Development, 2023
This study compared the acoustic properties of 26 (100% female, 100% monolingual) Danish caregivers' spontaneous speech addressed to their 11- to 24-month-old infants (infant-directed speech, IDS) and an adult experimenter (adult-directed speech, ADS). The data were collected between 2016 and 2018 in Aarhus, Denmark. Prosodic properties of Danish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Speech Communication, Infants
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Fernald, Anne – Child Development, 1989
Explored the power of intonation of speech addressed to adults and preverbal infants to convey meaningful information to 80 adult listeners. Listeners used intonation to identify speaker's intent with greater accuracy in infant-directed speech than adult-directed speech. (RJC)
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Adult Child Relationship, Infants, Intonation