A systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis of the acoustic features of infant-directed speech

C Cox, C Bergmann, E Fowler… - Nature Human …, 2023 - nature.com
When speaking to infants, adults often produce speech that differs systematically from that
directed to other adults. To quantify the acoustic properties of this speech style across a wide …

A collaborative approach to infant research: Promoting reproducibility, best practices, and theory‐building

MC Frank, E Bergelson, C Bergmann, A Cristia… - Infancy, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The ideal of scientific progress is that we accumulate measurements and integrate these into
theory, but recent discussion of replicability issues has cast doubt on whether psychological …

Child language: Acquisition and development

M Saxton - 2017 - torrossa.com
Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Sara Miller McCune founded SAGE Publishing in 1965 to
support the dissemination of usable knowledge and educate a global community. SAGE …

Aberrant auditory system and its developmental implications for autism

L Yu, S Wang - Science China Life Sciences, 2021 - Springer
Most infants who are later diagnosed with autism show delayed speech and language
and/or atypical language profile. There is a large body of research on abnormal speech and …

Infant-directed speech from seven to nineteen months has similar acoustic properties but different functions

M Kalashnikova, D Burnham - Journal of child language, 2018 - cambridge.org
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 …

A perceptual advantage for onomatopoeia in early word learning: Evidence from eye-tracking

CE Laing - Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2017 - Elsevier
A perceptual advantage for iconic forms in infant language learning has been widely
reported in the literature, termed the “sound symbolism bootstrapping hypothesis” by Imai …

Song and infant-directed speech facilitate word learning

W Ma, A Fiveash, EH Margulis… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Two separate lines of research have examined the influence of song and infant-directed
speech (IDS—a speech register that includes some melodic features) on language learning …

How salient are onomatopoeia in the early input? A prosodic analysis of infant-directed speech

CE Laing, M Vihman, T Keren-Portnoy - Journal of Child Language, 2017 - cambridge.org
Onomatopoeia are frequently identified amongst infants' earliest words (Menn & Vihman,
2011), yet few authors have considered why this might be, and even fewer have explored …

[HTML][HTML] Prosodic input and children's word learning in infant-and adult-directed speech

M Han, NH De Jong, R Kager - Infant Behavior and Development, 2022 - Elsevier
This study examines (1) whether infant-directed speech (IDS) facilitates children's word
learning compared to adult-directed speech (ADS); and (2) the link between the prosody of …

A cross-cultural examination of young children's everyday language experiences

Studies of cross-cultural variation in children's early at-home linguistic experience has
previously lacked consistency in methodology across populations. Here young children's …