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Acoustic determinants of infant preference for motherese speech

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Fernald, Anne, Kuhl, Patricia·1987·Infant Behavior and Development

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Three experiments investigated possible acoustic determinants of the infant listening preference for motherese speech found by Fernald 1985. To test the hypothesis that the intonation of motherese speech was sufficient to elicit this preference, it was necessary to eliminate lexical content and to isolate the three major acoustic correlates of intonation: (1) fundamental frequency (Fo), or pitch; (2) amplitude, correlated with loudness; and (3) duration, related to speech rhythm. Three sets of auditory reinforcers were computer-synthesized, derived from the Fo (Experiment 1), amplitude (Experiment 2), and duration (Experiment 3) characteristics of the infant- and adult-directed natural speech samples used by Fernald 1985. Thus, each of these experiments focused on particular prosodic variables in the absence of segmental variation. Twenty 4-month-old infants were tested in an operant auditory preference procedure in each experiment. Infants showed a significant preference for the Fo-patterns of motherese speech, but not for the amplitude or duration patterns of motherese.

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Authors: Fernald, A., & Kuhl, P.
Affiliations: Stanford University (US)
University of Washington (US)
Corresponding author: Fernald, Anne
ORCID: Fernald, Anne
Kuhl, Patricia
Venue: Infant Behavior and Development
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 1987-07
Volume: 10
Issue: 3
Pages: 279-293
ISSN: 0163-6383 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/0163-6383(87)90017-8
OpenAlex: W2039948074
Cited by: 818
References: 25
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Funders: National Science Foundation (79-16559, 81-03581)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
Keywords: intonation, fundamental frequency, pitch, amplitude, loudness, speech duration, prosody, synthetic speech, infant-directed speech, auditory preference, 4-month-old infants

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