A longitudinal study of prosodic exaggeration in child-directed speech
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Vosoughi, Soroush; Roy, Deb K
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We investigate the role of prosody in child-directed speech of three English speaking adults using data collected for the Human Speechome Project, an ecologically valid, longitudinal corpus collected from the home of a family with a young child. We looked at differences in prosody between child-directed and adult-directed speech. We also looked at the change in prosody of child-directed speech as the child gets older. Results showed significant interactions between speech type and vowel duration, mean F0 and F0 range. We also found significant changes in prosody in child-directed speech as the child gets older.
Date issued
2012-05Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory; Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)Journal
Proceedings of the Speech Prosody, 6th International Conference
Publisher
Speech Prosody Special Interest Group (SProSIG)
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Vosoughi, Soroush; Roy, Deb K. "A longitudinal study of prosodic exaggeration in child-directed speech" Speech Prosody, 6th International Conference. Speech Prosody Special Interest Group (SProSIG) May 2012.
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978-7-5608-4869-3