Rhythmic modification in child directed speech
Interval-based rhythm metrics were applied to the speech of English,Catalan and Spanish mothers addressing their children (aged 2, 4 and 6 years) and compared with their speech when addressing other adults. Results show that when mothers speak to their children, their speech is more vocalic (higher...
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| author | Payne, E Post, B Astruc, L Prieto, P Vanrell, M |
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| description | Interval-based rhythm metrics were applied to the speech of English,Catalan and Spanish mothers addressing their children (aged 2, 4 and 6 years) and compared with their speech when addressing other adults. Results show that when mothers speak to their children, their speech is more vocalic (higher %V) and more even-timed (lower variability in vocalic and consonantal interval duration). Little differentiation is made when addressing children of different ages for the window of development investigated here. These results indicate a greater ‘syllable-timed’ quality to child-directed-speech, irrespective of the presumed rhythmic category of the language in question. Characteristic cross-linguistic rhythmic differences observed in adult-directed-speech are, in the main, preserved, although more weakly, suggesting that while modifications in child-directed speech largely occur within the bounds of a presumed rhythmic category, such categories may, in fact, overlap. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:0248005f-c604-49ce-9a07-33b1fb9fd8f22022-03-26T08:39:53ZRhythmic modification in child directed speechBook sectionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_3248uuid:0248005f-c604-49ce-9a07-33b1fb9fd8f2Symplectic Elements at OxfordAracne2015Payne, EPost, BAstruc, LPrieto, PVanrell, MRusso, MInterval-based rhythm metrics were applied to the speech of English,Catalan and Spanish mothers addressing their children (aged 2, 4 and 6 years) and compared with their speech when addressing other adults. Results show that when mothers speak to their children, their speech is more vocalic (higher %V) and more even-timed (lower variability in vocalic and consonantal interval duration). Little differentiation is made when addressing children of different ages for the window of development investigated here. These results indicate a greater ‘syllable-timed’ quality to child-directed-speech, irrespective of the presumed rhythmic category of the language in question. Characteristic cross-linguistic rhythmic differences observed in adult-directed-speech are, in the main, preserved, although more weakly, suggesting that while modifications in child-directed speech largely occur within the bounds of a presumed rhythmic category, such categories may, in fact, overlap. |
| spellingShingle | Payne, E Post, B Astruc, L Prieto, P Vanrell, M Rhythmic modification in child directed speech |
| title | Rhythmic modification in child directed speech |
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