Effects of Caregiver Prosody on Child Language Acquisition

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Vosoughi, Soroush; Frank, Michael C.; Roy, Brandon C.; Roy, Deb K
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Abstract
This paper investigates the role of prosody in one child’s lexical acquisition using an ecologically valid, high-density, longitudinal corpus. The corpus consists of high fidelity recordings collected from microphones embedded throughout the home of a family with a young child. We analyze data collected continuously from ages 9 – 24 months, including the child’s first productive use of language at about 11 months and ending at the child’s active use of more than 500 words. We found significant correlations between prosody of caregivers’ speech and age of acquisition for individual words.
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http://speechprosody2010.illinois.edu/program.php (conference site)
Date issued
2010-05
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71119
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory; Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Journal
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Speech Prosody
Publisher
Speech Prosody Special Interest Group (SProSIG) of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
Citation
Vosoughi, Soroush et al. "Effects of Caregiver Prosody on Child Language Acquisition." in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago, May 11-14, 2010.
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