How Do Infants Disaggregate Referential and Affective Pitch?
Infants are faced with a challenge of disaggregating functions of pitch in the ambient language into affective, pragmatic or referential (the latter in tone languages only). This mini review discusses several factors that might facilitate the disaggregation of referential and affective pitch in infa...
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| description | Infants are faced with a challenge of disaggregating functions of pitch in the ambient language into affective, pragmatic or referential (the latter in tone languages only). This mini review discusses several factors that might facilitate the disaggregation of referential and affective pitch in infancy: acoustic characteristics of infant-directed speech, recognition of vocal affect, facial cues accompanying affective prosody, and lateralization of affective and referential prosody in the brain. It proposes two hypotheses concerning the role of audiovisual cues and brain lateralization |
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| spelling | doaj.art-91004b52fd284b55927ef9e44bc51b432022-12-21T19:43:08ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782018-10-01910.3389/fpsyg.2018.02093385108How Do Infants Disaggregate Referential and Affective Pitch?René KagerInfants are faced with a challenge of disaggregating functions of pitch in the ambient language into affective, pragmatic or referential (the latter in tone languages only). This mini review discusses several factors that might facilitate the disaggregation of referential and affective pitch in infancy: acoustic characteristics of infant-directed speech, recognition of vocal affect, facial cues accompanying affective prosody, and lateralization of affective and referential prosody in the brain. It proposes two hypotheses concerning the role of audiovisual cues and brain lateralizationhttps://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02093/fullinfant speech perceptionpitch processinginfant language representationlexical tone acquisition1Lexical tone perception |
| spellingShingle | René Kager How Do Infants Disaggregate Referential and Affective Pitch? Frontiers in Psychology infant speech perception pitch processing infant language representation lexical tone acquisition1 Lexical tone perception |
| title | How Do Infants Disaggregate Referential and Affective Pitch? |
| title_full | How Do Infants Disaggregate Referential and Affective Pitch? |
| title_fullStr | How Do Infants Disaggregate Referential and Affective Pitch? |
| title_full_unstemmed | How Do Infants Disaggregate Referential and Affective Pitch? |
| title_short | How Do Infants Disaggregate Referential and Affective Pitch? |
| title_sort | how do infants disaggregate referential and affective pitch |
| topic | infant speech perception pitch processing infant language representation lexical tone acquisition1 Lexical tone perception |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02093/full |
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