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Yang, Yang; Wang, Li; Wang, Qi – Child Development, 2021
Cultural experiences can influence how people attend to different emotional cues. Whereas semantic content explicitly describes feelings, vocal tone conveys implicit information regarding emotions. This cross-cultural study examined children's attention to emotional cues in spoken words. The sample consisted of 121 European American (EA) and 120…
Descriptors: Children, Child Development, Whites, Asians
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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