A multimodal corpus of speech to infant and adult listeners

Elizabeth K. Johnson, Mybeth Lahey, Mirjam Ernestus, Anne Cutler

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    Abstract

    Abstract: An audio and video corpus of speech addressed to 28 11-month-olds is described. The corpus allows comparisons between adult speech directed towards infants, familiar adults, and unfamiliar adult addresses as well as caregivers’ word teaching strategies across word classes. Summary data show that infant-directed speech differed more from speech to unfamiliar than familiar adults, that word teaching strategies for nominal versus verbs and adjectives differed, that mothers mostly addressed infants with multi-word utterances, and that infants’ vocabulary size was unrelated to speech rate, but correlated positively with predominance of continuous caregiver speech (not of isolated words) in the input.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)EL534-EL540
    Number of pages7
    JournalJournal of Acoustical Society of America
    Volume134
    Issue number6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2013

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