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The origins of babytalk : smiling, teaching or social convergence?
Kalashnikova, Marina (R17600); Carignan, Christopher (R18263); Burnham, Denis K. (R7357). - : U.K., Royal Society Publishing, 2017
Abstract: When addressing their young infants, parents systematically modify their speech. Such infant-directed speech (IDS) contains exaggerated vowel formants, which have been proposed to foster language development via articulation of more distinct speech sounds. Here, this assumption is rigorously tested using both acoustic and, for the first time, fine-grained articulatory measures. Mothers were recorded speaking to their infant and to another adult, and measures were taken of their acoustic vowel space, their tongue and lip movements and the length of their vocal tract. Results showed that infantbut not adult-directed speech contains acoustically exaggerated vowels, and these are not the product of adjustments to tongue or to lip movements. Rather, they are the product of a shortened vocal tract due to a raised larynx, which can be ascribed to speakers’ unconscious effort to appear smaller and more non-threatening to the young infant. This adjustment in IDS may be a vestige of early mother-infant interactions, which had as its primary purpose the transmission of non-aggressiveness and/or a primitive manifestation of prelinguistic vocal social convergence of the mother to her infant. With the advent of human language, this vestige then acquired a secondary purpose-facilitating language acquisition via the serendipitously exaggerated vowels.
Keyword: English language; language acquisition; parent and infant; speech perception; vowels; XXXXXX - Unknown
URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170306
http://handle.westernsydney.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:43727
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Modelling Japanese speakers' perceptual learning of English /iː/ and /ɪ/ within the L2LP framework
Yazawa, Kakeru; Kondo, Mariko; Escudero, Paola (R16636). - : U.K., Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference, 2017
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Early development of abstract language knowledge : evidence from perception–production transfer of birth-language memory
Choi, Jiyoun; Cutler, Anne (R12329); Broersma, Mirjam. - : U.K., Royal Society Publishing, 2017
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The temporal modulation structure of infant-directed speech
Leong, Victoria; Kalashnikova, Marina (R17600); Burnham, Denis K. (R7357). - : U.S., MIT Press, 2017
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Indexical and linguistic processing by 12-month-olds : discrimination of speaker, accent and vowel differences
Mulak, Karen E. (R18007); Bonn, Cory D.; Chladkova, Katerina. - : U.S., PLoS, 2017
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Acoustic properties predict perception of unfamiliar Dutch vowels by adult Australian English and Peruvian Spanish listeners
Alispahic, Samra (R18016); Mulak, Karen E. (R18007); Escudero, Paola (R16636). - : Switzerland, Frontiers Research Foundation, 2017
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Effects of acoustic and linguistic experience on Japanese pitch accent processing
Wu, Xianghua; Kawase, Saya (S31710); Wang, Yue. - : U.K., Cambridge University Press, 2017
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Uncovering the mechanisms responsible for why language learning may promote healthy cognitive aging
Antoniou, Mark (R17772); Wright, Sarah M.. - : Switzerland, Frontiers Research Foundation, 2017
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Auditory and phonetic category formation
Goudbeek, Martijn; Smits, Roel; Cutler, Anne (R12329). - : Netherlands, Elsevier, 2017
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Early phonology revealed by international adoptees’ birth language retention
Choi, Jiyoun (R18486); Broersma, Mirjam; Cutler, Anne (R12329). - : U.S., National Academy of Sciences, 2017
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A Grammar of Nungon: A Papuan Language of Northeast New Guinea
Sarvasy, Hannah (R19492). - : Netherlands, Brill, 2017
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