When speaking to infants, adults often produce speech that differs systematically from that
directed to other adults. To quantify the acoustic properties of this speech style across a wide …

Socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with executive function (EF) and prefrontal cortex
(PFC) development. However, understanding of the specific aspects of SES that influence …

This study assessed cortical tracking of temporal information in incoming natural speech in
seven-month-old infants. Cortical tracking refers to the process by which neural activity …

An auditory-visual speech benefit, the benefit that visual speech cues bring to auditory
speech perception, is experienced from early on in infancy and continues to be experienced …

When addressing preverbal infants and family dogs, people tend to use specific speech
styles. While recent studies suggest acoustic parallels between infant-and dog-directed …

Purpose: This scoping review considers the acoustic features of a clear speech register
directed to nonnative listeners known as foreigner-directed speech (FDS). We identify vowel …

Speech is central to human life. As such, any delay or impairment in receptive speech
processing can have a profoundly negative impact on the social and professional life of a …

Abstract Infant‐directed speech (IDS), a speaking style distinguished by its higher pitch,
slower tempo, and exaggerated intonation, has been documented in speech directed …

Objective We investigated early maturation of the infant mismatch response MMR, including
mismatch negativity (MMN), positive MMR (P-MMR), and late discriminative negativity …

Individual differences in infants' native phonological development have been linked to the
quantity and quality of infant‐directed speech (IDS). The effects of parental and infant …