Over the first year of life, infant perception changes radically as the child learns the
phonology of the ambient language from the speech she is exposed to. Since infant …

Infant-directed speech (IDS) is the particular voice register observed in the majority of
parents in interaction with their infants and differs from natural speech used in conversations …

Infants diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (autism) have difficulty engaging in social
communication and interactions with others and often experience language impairment. The …

A key question in developmental research concerns how children learn associations
between words and meanings in their early language development. Given a vast array of …

We examined code-switching (CS) in the speech of twenty-four bilingual caregivers when
speaking with their 18-to 24-month-old children. All parents CS at least once in a short play …

Most language use is displaced, referring to past, future, or hypothetical events, posing the
challenge of how children learn what words refer to when the referent is not physically …

Although both fathers and mothers speak differently in infant-directed speech (IDS)
compared to adult-directed speech (ADS), the acoustic characteristics of present-day …

Infants and adults learn new phonological varieties better when exposed to multiple rather
than a single speaker. This article tests whether having a larger social network similarly …

Early language acquisition is a complex cognitive task. Recent data-informed approaches
showed that children do not learn words uniformly at random but rather follow specific …

Caregivers typically use an exaggerated speech register known as infant‐directed speech
(IDS) in communication with infants. Infants prefer IDS over adult‐directed speech (ADS) …