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Depression Diagnoses and Fundamental Frequency-Based Acoustic Cues in Maternal Infant-Directed Speech

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Porritt, Laura L., Zinser, Michael C., Bachorowski, Jo-Anne, Kaplan, Peter S.·2014·Language Learning and Development
DOI 10.1080/15475441.2013.802962PMC PMC3904677
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F0-based acoustic measures were extracted from a brief, sentence-final target word spoken during structured play interactions between mothers and their 3- to 14-month-old infants and were analyzed based on demographic variables and DSM-IV Axis-I clinical diagnoses and their common modifiers. F0 range (ΔF0) was negatively correlated with infant age and number of children. ΔF0 was significantly smaller in clinically depressed mothers and mothers diagnosed with depression in partial remission, relative to nondepressed mothers, mothers diagnosed with depression in full remission, and those diagnosed with depressive disorder not otherwise specified. ΔF0 was significantly lower in mothers experiencing their first major depressive episode relative to mothers with recurrent depression. Deficits in ΔF0 were specific to diagnosed clinical depression, and were not well predicted by elevated self-report scores only or by diagnosed anxiety disorders. Mothers with higher ΔF0 had infants with reportedly larger productive vocabularies, but depression was unrelated to vocabulary development. Implications for cognitive-linguistic development are discussed.

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  • Porritt et al. showed that mothers with clinically diagnosed PND produced a smaller pitch range than mothers in partial remission, and deficits in pitch range were not well predicted by self-report scores or anxiety disorders.

    “Most recently, in a sample of 281 families with infants aged 3–14 months, Porritt and colleagues [31] showed that mothers with clinically diagnosed PND produced a smaller pitch range than mothers diagnosed with PND in partial remission, and that deficits in pitch range were not well predicted by elevated self-report scores alone, or by diagnosed anxiety disorders.”

    From Effect of maternal depression on infant-directed speech to prelinguistic infants: Implications for language development (2020) · cites this paper as [31]

    The Results report that the currently depressed and partial-remission groups did not differ significantly in pitch range; the Discussion likewise says their pitch ranges resembled one another. Thus, the claimed contrast with partial remission is not supported. The Discussion does support the other point: after demographic factors were considered, self-reported depression scores did not explain unique pitch-range variance, and anxiety diagnoses did not account for the acoustic findings. (LLM, conf=0.90)

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  • American and British mothers experiencing PND speak to their infants with less vocal pitch variation, poorer temporal responses to infant cues, and fewer affective or informative words in IDS.

    “Taken together, the evidence suggests that American and British mothers experiencing PND speak to their infants with less vocal pitch variation [29–31], poorer temporal responses to infant cues [29] and fewer affective or informative words in IDS [32].”

    From Effect of maternal depression on infant-directed speech to prelinguistic infants: Implications for language development (2020) · cites this paper as [31]

  • Studies by Bettes, Kaplan, and Porritt demonstrate links between PND and diminished pitch variation, particularly in IDS within structured play contexts.

    “Together, the studies by Bettes et al. [29], Kaplan et al. [30] and Porritt et al. [31] are important because they demonstrate links between PND and diminished pitch variation, particularly in IDS within structured play contexts when lexical content and the type of interaction are afforded greater control.”

    From Effect of maternal depression on infant-directed speech to prelinguistic infants: Implications for language development (2020) · cites this paper as [31]

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  1. Liu HM Tsao FM 2008 3 The association between maternal speech input and child language development Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies Vancouver, Canada

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Authors
Porritt, L. L., Zinser, M. C., Bachorowski, J.-A., & Kaplan, P. S.
Affiliations
  • University of Colorado Denver (US)
  • Vanderbilt University (US)
Corresponding author
Kaplan, Peter S.
ORCID
Kaplan, Peter S.
Venue
Language Learning and Development
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2013-10-11
Volume
10
Issue
1
Pages
51-67
ISSN
  • 1547-3341 (ISSN-L)
  • 1547-5441
DOI
10.1080/15475441.2013.802962
PMC
PMC3904677
OpenAlex
W2118177720
Cited by
46
References
67
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FWCI
2.07
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Language Learning and Development (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD049732)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
Keywords
maternal depression, infant-directed speech, fundamental frequency, acoustic cues, mother-infant interaction, vocabulary development, recurrent depression, anxiety disorders, child language acquisition

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