Abstract:Research has demonstrated differences in the characteristics of infant-directed speech (IDS) based on age (Stern et al., 1983) and sentence-type (Geffen and Mintz, 2017) but has not examined the two factors together. The current study evaluates whether the acoustics of IDS differ as a function of child's age and sentence-type. The study combines two corpora of native-English adult speakers. Both Corpus1(9mo) (described in Geffen and Mintz, 2017), from the Brent corpus of the CHILDES database (Brent and Siskind… Show more
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