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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
DOI 10.1016/0163-6383(87)90017-8
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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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  1. Aslin, 1983, Auditory development and speech perception in infancy, Vol. 2

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Authors
Fernald, A., & Kuhl, P.
Affiliations
  • Stanford University (US)
  • University of Washington (US)
Corresponding author
Fernald, Anne
ORCID
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
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25
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FWCI
11.18
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Infant Behavior and Development (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
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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