[HTML][HTML] Natural infant-directed speech facilitates neural tracking of prosody

KH Menn, C Michel, L Meyer, S Hoehl, C Männel - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier
Infants prefer to be addressed with infant-directed speech (IDS). IDS benefits language
acquisition through amplified low-frequency amplitude modulations. It has been reported …

Prosodic modulations in child‐directed language and their impact on word learning

J Shi, Y Gu, G Vigliocco - Developmental Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Child‐directed language can support language learning, but how? We addressed two
questions:(1) how caregivers prosodically modulated their speech as a function of word …

Relating the prosody of infant-directed speech to children's vocabulary size

HAN Mengru, R KAGER - Journal of Child Language, 2024 - cambridge.org
This study examines correlations between the prosody of infant-directed speech (IDS) and
children's vocabulary size. We collected longitudinal speech data and vocabulary …

Phonological acquisition depends on the timing of speech sounds: Deconvolution EEG modeling across the first five years

KH Menn, C Männel, L Meyer - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
The late development of fast brain activity in infancy restricts initial processing abilities to
slow information. Nevertheless, infants acquire the short-lived speech sounds of their native …

Language specificity of infant-directed speech: speaking rate and word position in word-learning contexts

M Han, NH de Jong, R Kager - Language Learning and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Previous research indicates that infant-directed speech (IDS) is usually slower than adult-
directed speech (ADS) and mothers prefer placing a focused word in isolation or utterance …

Parent-offspring turn-taking dynamics influence parents' song structure and elaboration in a singing primate

C De Gregorio, A Zanoli, F Carugati… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Parent-offspring interactions are essential to interpret animal social evolution and behavior,
but their role in mediating acoustic communication in animals that interact vocally is still …

Does electrophysiological maturation shape language acquisition?

KH Menn, C Männel, L Meyer - … on Psychological Science, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Infants master temporal patterns of their native language at a developmental trajectory from
slow to fast: Shortly after birth, they recognize the slow acoustic modulations specific to their …

A recipient design in multimodal language on TV: A comparison of child-directed and adult-directed broadcasting

Y Gu - Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive …, 2023 - escholarship.org
Child-directed language is a unique multimodal communication behaviour that differs from
adult-directed language. We investigated how broadcasters organize their multimodal …

Word segmentation cues in German child-directed speech: A corpus analysis

K Stärk, E Kidd, RLA Frost - Language and Speech, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
To acquire language, infants must learn to segment words from running speech. A
significant body of experimental research shows that infants use multiple cues to do so; …

Chunk-based Incremental Processing and Learning: An integrated theory of word discovery, vocabulary growth, and speed of lexical processing

A Jessop, J Pine, F Gobet - 2023 - psyarxiv.com
Chunking theories argue that children discover their first words by extracting sub-sequences
embedded in their continuous input, but the mechanisms proposed in these accounts are …