Infant-directed speech does not always involve exaggerated vowel distinctions
Evidence from Danish
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21301774 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cameron Cox (0000-0003-4076-581X, Aarhus University, corresponding author), Christina Dideriksen (0000-0002-0528-5530, Aarhus University), Tamar Keren‐portnoy (0000-0002-7258-2404, University of York), Andreas Roepstorff (0000-0002-3665-1708, Aarhus University), Morten H Christiansen (0000-0002-3850-0655, Aarhus University), Riccardo Fusaroli (0000-0003-4775-5219, Aarhus University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1672-1696 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Child Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-3920 • E-ISSN: 1467-8624 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/cdev.13950 |
| PMID | 37307398 |
| OpenAlex | W4380356149 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 153 |
This study compared the acoustic properties of 26 (100% female, 100% monolingual) Danish caregivers' spontaneous speech addressed to their 11- to 24-month-old infants (infant-directed speech, IDS) and an adult experimenter (adult-directed speech, ADS). The data were collected between 2016 and 2018 in Aarhus, Denmark. Prosodic properties of Danish IDS conformed to cross-linguistic patterns, with a higher pitch, greater pitch variability, and slower articulation rate than ADS. However, an acoustic analysis of vocalic properties revealed that Danish IDS had a reduced or similar vowel space, higher within-vowel variability, raised formants, and lower degree of vowel discriminability compared to ADS. None of the measures, except articulation rate, showed age-related differences. These results push for future research to conduct theory-driven comparisons across languages with distinct phonological systems
Articulation (sociology) · Audiology · Danish · Formant · Linguistics · Manner of articulation · Phonetics · Vowel · Language Development and Disorders · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Speech Recognition and Synthesis
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