Infant-directed speech (IDS) refers to the suite of prosodic and structural modifications that
adults use when communicating with infants, as opposed to adults. A number of theories …

Speech output technology is finding widespread application, including in scenarios where
intelligibility might be compromised–at least for some listeners–by adverse conditions …

This book provides an extensive overview of research into child production and perception.
It focuses primarily on the first two years of life because, for the majority of children, that …

This study assessed cortical tracking of temporal information in incoming natural speech in
seven-month-old infants. Cortical tracking refers to the process by which neural activity …

The goal of this study is twofold: first, to examine in greater depth the claimed contribution of
differences in syllable structure to measures of speech rhythm for three languages that are …

This longitudinal study assessed three acoustic components of maternal infant-directed
speech (IDS)–pitch, affect, and vowel hyperarticulation–in relation to infants' age and their …

The urge to move to music (groove) depends in part on rhythmic syncopation in the music.
For adults, the syncopation‐groove relationship has an inverted‐U shape: listeners want to …

Interval-based rhythm metrics were applied to the speech of English, Catalan and Spanish
2, 4 and 6 year-olds, and compared with the (adult-directed) speech of their mothers …

The ability to extract word-forms from sentential contexts represents an initial step in infants'
process toward lexical acquisition. By age 6 months the ability is just emerging and …

This study analyses the scaling and alignment of low and high intonational targets in the
speech of 27 children–nine English-speaking, nine Catalan-speaking and nine Spanish …