Language input to a prelingual infant

Van de Weijer, Joost

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Language input to a prelingual infant

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Van de Weijer, Joost
Language Acquisition Group, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Van de Weijer, J. (1997). Language input to a prelingual infant. In A. Sorace, C. Heycock, & R. Shillcock (Eds.), Proceedings of the GALA '97 conference on language acquisition (pp. 290-293). Edinburgh University Press.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000E-EBA4-6

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Pitch, intonation, and speech rate were analyzed in a collection of everyday speech heard by one Dutch infant between the ages of six and nine months. Components of each of these variables were measured in the speech of three adult speakers (mother, father, baby-sitter) when they addressed the infant, and when they addressed another adult. The results are in line with previously reported findings which are usually based on laboratory or prearranged settings: infant-directed speech in a natural setting exhibits more pitch variation, a larger number of simple intonation contours, and slower speech rate than does adult-directed speech.