Essays about: "infant-directed speech"

Found 4 essays containing the words infant-directed speech.

  1. 1. Word-form recognition in 6-month-olds? Using event-related potentials to study the influence of infant-directed speech

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Author : Bente Sand Aronsson; [2023]
    Keywords : Word-form recognition; event-related potentials; infant-directed speech; language acquisition; Igenkänning av ordformer; event-relaterade potentialer; barnriktat tal; språkinlärning;

    Abstract : By 4.5 months infants listen longer to their names compared to matched foils, which is the earliest empirically demonstrated sign of word-form recognition. This ability develops gradually in the first year of life and becomes increasingly advanced. READ MORE

  3. 2. Relation between vowel hypo-/hyperarticulation and vocal affect in Swedish infant directed speech

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Author : Bente Sand Aronsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Infant-directed speech; vocal affect; vowel hypo- hyperarticulation; language acquisition; Barnriktat tal; röstkänsla; vokalhypo- hyperartikulation; språkinlärning;

    Abstract : Vowel hyperarticulation and hyper affect are two characteristics of infant-directed speech (IDS), reported in several studies. Vowel hyperarticulation has been suggested to be a way in which adults subconsciously facilitate infants’ language acquisition, but it has also been argued to be the acoustic by-product of an affective speaking style. READ MORE

  4. 3. Fundamental frequency as basis for speech segmentation modeling

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för fonetik

    Author : Ellen Marklund; [2011]
    Keywords : Speech segmentation modeling; first language acquisition; fundamental frequency;

    Abstract : The present study investigates the relevance of fundamental frequency in speech segmentation models intended to simulate infants. Speech from three different conditions (infant-directed speech to 3- and 12-month-olds, and adult-directed speech) was segmented based on fundamental frequency information, using a variant of the dpn-gram segmenting technique (highlighting similar segments as lexical candidates). READ MORE

  5. 4. Assessing the Relevance of Prosodic and Phonotactic Cues on Parsing the Speech Stream by Young Language-Learners

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för fonetik

    Author : Eeva Koponen; Eeva Klintfors; [2001]
    Keywords : language acquisition;

    Abstract : This is a study about how one-year-old Swedish-learning infants presumably use probabilistic information, such as prosody and phonotactic regularity, in segmentation of speech. The variables studied were the Swedish tonal word accents I & II and the distributional regularities of within-word and between-word consonant clusters in Swedish infant-directed speech. READ MORE