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 …

A common view of learning in infancy emphasizes the role of incidental sensory experiences
from which increasingly abstract statistical regularities are extracted. In this view, infant …

When interacting with infants, humans often alter their speech and song in ways thought to
support communication. Theories of human child-rearing, informed by data on vocal …

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 …

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 …

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 …

There is growing evidence that dog-directed and infant-directed speech have similar
acoustic characteristics, like high overall pitch, wide pitch range, and attention-getting …

Purpose Literature was reviewed on the development of vowels in children's speech and on
vowel disorders in children and adults, with an emphasis on studies using acoustic methods …

The human voice is often considered to be a secondary sexual characteristic that signals
underlying information about the immunocompetence of the speaker (ie the …

Our uniquely human ability to learn and use languages (aka language-readiness) has been
hypothesized to result from species-specific changes in brain development and wiring that …