What's New, Pussycat? On Talking to Babies and Animals

Burnham, Denis K; Kitamura, Christine; Vollmer‐Conna, Ute

doi:10.1126/science.1069587

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“…Although the emotional salience in PDS is not rated as strongly as in IDS, it is significantly higher than in ADS (Burnham et al, 2002). The increased emotional expression in IDS is thought to communicate intentions to the infant (Fernald, 1989), and it may be that the exaggerated emotional expression in PDS also influences responses in dogs.…”

Section: Emotional Informationmentioning

confidence: 91%

“…Although both men and women used PDS, the female owners spent significantly more time speaking to their dogs and were more likely to use PDS (Prato-Previde et al, 2006). It is interesting to note, however, that owners may be inherently sensitive to the limited linguistic abilities of their dogs: vowel hyperarticulation, a critical component of IDS thought to be specific to the teaching of language, is absent from PDS (Burnham et al, 2002).…”

Section: Emotional Informationmentioning

confidence: 93%

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Auditory Communication in Domestic Dogs

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“…The exaggerated patterns facilitate the discrimination between the phonemes or sounds. Similarly to what happens with infants, several works have investigated modifications of speech registers when talking to animals [24], foreigners [20], or robots [25][26][27]. The important conclusion from this literature is the existence of common prosodic characteristics usually termed as expanded intonation contours (or Fernald's prototypical contours) [19,22] due to their exaggerated contours: modulations of the fundamental frequency (F0) (mean, range).…”

Section: Expanded Intonation Contoursmentioning

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Time-Scale Feature Extractions for Emotional Speech Characterization

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Emotional speech characterization is an important issue for the understanding of interaction. This article discusses the time-scale analysis problem in feature extraction for emotional speech processing. We describe a computational framework for combining segmental and supra-segmental features for emotional speech detection. The statistical fusion is based on the estimation of local a posteriori class probabilities and the overall decision employs weighting factors directly related to the duration of the individual speech segments. This strategy is applied to a real-world application: detection of Italian motherese in authentic and longitudinal parent-infant interaction at home. The results suggest that short-and long-term information, respectively, represented by the short-term spectrum and the prosody parameters (fundamental frequency and energy) provide a robust and efficient time-scale analysis. A similar fusion methodology is also investigated by the use of a phonetic-specific characterization process. This strategy is motivated by the fact that there are variations across emotional states at the phoneme level. A timescale based on both vowels and consonants is proposed and it provides a relevant and discriminant feature space for acted emotion recognition. The experimental results on two different databases Berlin (German) and Aholab (Basque) show that the best performance are obtained by our phoneme-dependent approach. These findings demonstrate the relevance of taking into account phoneme dependency (vowels/consonants) for emotional speech characterization.

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“…Research on IDS has shown that phonetic categories in IDS tend to be more distinct (Malsheen 1980;Masataka 1992;Andruski and Kuhl 1996;Kuhl et al 1997;Burnham et al 2002;Liu et al 2007;Cristià 2010) when compared to ADS. It has been argued that the distinct phonetic categories in IDS serve to provide the infant with input that is optimized for learning certain aspects of the linguistic system (Kuhl et al 1997;de Boer and Kuhl 2003;Kirchhoff and Schimmel 2005).…”

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“…An extensive body of research has examined in what ways IDS differs from adult-directed speech (ADS) among the world's languages (see Soderstrom 2007 for a review). For example, IDS is characterized by overall higher pitch (Ferguson 1964;Fernald and Simon 1984), a greater pitch range (Fernald and Simon 1984), larger pitch peaks on focused words (Fernald and Mazzie 1991), slower speech rate (Bryant and Barrett 2007), and more distinct phonetic categories (Malsheen 1980;Masataka 1992;Andruski and Kuhl 1996;Kuhl et al 1997;Burnham et al 2002;Liu et al 2007;Cristià 2010) when compared to ADS. In the literature, these characteristics of IDS have been argued to play important roles in communication between infants and caregivers, such as capturing the infants' attention, communicating affect, and facilitating the infants' language development (e.g., Fernald 1989;Kitamura et al 2002).…”

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Infant-directed speech as a window into the dynamic nature of phonology

Mazuka¹,

Igarashi

Martin

et al. 2015

Laboratory Phonology

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Theoretical frameworks of phonology are built largely on the basis of idealized speech, typically recorded in a laboratory under static conditions. Natural speech, in contrast, occurs in a variety of communicative contexts where speakers and hearers dynamically adjust their speech to fit their needs. The present paper demonstrates that phonologically informed analysis of specialized speech registers, such as infant-directed speech, can reveal specific ways segmental and supra-segmental aspects of phonology are modulated dynamically to accommodate the specific communicative needs of speakers and hearers. Data for the analyses come from a corpus of Japanese mothers' spontaneous speech directed to their infant child (infant-directed speech, IDS) and an adult (adult-directed speech, ADS), as well as read speech (RS). The speech samples in the corpus are annotated with segmental, morphological, and intonational information. We will show that the way intonation is exaggerated in Japanese IDS reflects the intonational structure of Japanese, which is different from that of English. We will also demonstrate that rules of phonological grammar, such as devoicing of high vowels and non-high vowels in Japanese, can be differently affected by the needs of the speaker to accommodate the specific characteristics of the listener.

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What's New, Pussycat? On Talking to Babies and Animals

Cited by 336 publications

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Auditory Communication in Domestic Dogs

Auditory Communication in Domestic Dogs

Time-Scale Feature Extractions for Emotional Speech Characterization

Infant-directed speech as a window into the dynamic nature of phonology

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