Vowel-hyperarticulation in Infant-directed Speech: A Multi-method Meta-analysis

I Lovcevic, T Benders, S Tsuji, R Fusaroli - 2023 - psyarxiv.com
There is a long-standing debate about the extent to which vowel hyperarticulation, the
production of acoustically exaggerated vowels, occurs in Infant-Directed Speech (IDS). This …

Neural processing of hyper-and hypo-articulated vowels in Infant-Directed Speech

I Lovcevic, P Söderström, M Kalashnikova… - The 4th Workshop on …, 2019 - lup.lub.lu.se
When addressing infants, adults use a speech register known as infant-directed speech
(IDS). Compared to adult-directed speech (ADS), IDS has a number of distinctive acoustic …

An association between phonetic complexity of infant vocalizations and parent vowel hyperarticulation

E Marklund, U Marklund, L Gustavsson - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Extreme or exaggerated articulation of vowels, or vowel hyperarticulation, is a characteristic
commonly found in infant-directed speech (IDS). High degrees of vowel hyperarticulation in …

The dynamics of vowel hypo-and hyperarticulation in Swedish infant-directed speech to 12-month-olds

E Marklund, L Gustavsson - Frontiers in Communication, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Vowel hypo-and hyperarticulation (VHH) was investigated in Swedish infant-directed
speech (IDS) to Swedish 12-month-olds using a measure that normalizes across speakers …

Relationship Between Parent Vowel Hyperarticulation in Infant-Directed Speech and Infant Phonetic Complexity on the Level of Conversational Turns

U Marklund, E Marklund, L Gustavsson - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
When speaking to infants, parents typically use infant-directed speech, a speech register
that in several aspects differs from that directed to adults. Vowel hyperarticulation, that is …

Infant-directed speech from seven to nineteen months has similar acoustic properties but different functions

M Kalashnikova, D Burnham - Journal of child language, 2018 - cambridge.org
This longitudinal study assessed three acoustic components of maternal infant-directed
speech (IDS)–pitch, affect, and vowel hyperarticulation–in relation to infants' age and their …

Tones and vowels in Cantonese infant directed speech: Hyperarticulation during the first 12 months of infancy

N Xu - 2008 - search.proquest.com
The study had four main aims (1) to investigate whether tone hyperarticulation occurs in IDS
in a tone language Cantonese (2) to investigate whether vowel hyperarticulation occurs in …

Infants' lexical processing: Independent contributions of attentional and clarity cues

I Lovcevic, D Burnham… - Language Learning and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
There is a long-standing debate in the literature about the benefits that acoustic components
of Infant Directed Speech (IDS) might have for infants' language acquisition. One of the …

Hypoarticulation in infant-directed speech

KT Englund - Applied Psycholinguistics, 2018 - cambridge.org
An established finding in research on infant-directed speech (IDS) is that vowels are
hyperarticulated compared to adult-directed speech (ADS). Studies showing this investigate …

AM I SP-EA-KI-NG CLE-AR-LY EN-OU-GH?: An investigation of the possible role of vowel hyperarticulation in speech communication

J Kangatharan, M Uther, L Kuhn, F Gobet - Acoustics 2012, 2012 - hal.science
Speech aimed at infants and foreigners has been reported to include the physical
exaggeration of vowels, that is vowel hyperarticulation. Although infants have been …