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 …

The acoustic features and didactic function of foreigner-directed speech: A sco** review

G Piazza, CD Martin, M Kalashnikova - Journal of Speech, Language, and …, 2022 - ASHA
Purpose: This sco** review considers the acoustic features of a clear speech register
directed to nonnative listeners known as foreigner-directed speech (FDS). We identify vowel …

What do North American babies hear? A large‐scale cross‐corpus analysis

E Bergelson, M Casillas, M Soderstrom… - Developmental …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A range of demographic variables influences how much speech young children hear.
However, because studies have used vastly different sampling methods, quantitative …

Cognitive science in the era of artificial intelligence: A roadmap for reverse-engineering the infant language-learner

E Dupoux - Cognition, 2018 - Elsevier
Spectacular progress in the information processing sciences (machine learning, wearable
sensors) promises to revolutionize the study of cognitive development. Here, we analyse the …

Dynamically adapted context-specific hyper-articulation: Feedback from interlocutors affects speakers' subsequent pronunciations

E Buz, MK Tanenhaus, TF Jaeger - Journal of memory and language, 2016 - Elsevier
We ask whether speakers can adapt their productions when feedback from their
interlocutors suggests that previous productions were perceptually confusable. To address …

The temporal modulation structure of infant-directed speech

V Leong, M Kalashnikova, D Burnham, U Goswami - Open Mind, 2017 - direct.mit.edu
The temporal modulation structure of adult-directed speech (ADS) is thought to be encoded
by neuronal oscillations in the auditory cortex that fluctuate at different temporal rates …

Speech categorization develops slowly through adolescence.

B McMurray, A Danelz, H Rigler… - Developmental …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
The development of the ability to categorize speech sounds is often viewed as occurring
primarily during infancy via perceptual learning mechanisms. However, a number of studies …

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 …

The origins of babytalk: smiling, teaching or social convergence?

M Kalashnikova, C Carignan… - Royal Society open …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
When addressing their young infants, parents systematically modify their speech. Such
infant-directed speech (IDS) contains exaggerated vowel formants, which have been …

Speech rate and pitch characteristics of infant-directed speech: Longitudinal and cross-linguistic observations

CR Narayan, LC McDermott - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
The speech rate and pitch (F 0) characteristics of naturalistic, longitudinally recorded infant-
and adult-directed speech are reported for three, genetically diverse languages. Previous …