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Direct linkIrena 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
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
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
