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 …

Infant-directed speech (IDS) refers to the suite of prosodic and structural modifications that
adults use when communicating with infants, as opposed to adults. A number of theories …

Infants prefer to be addressed with infant-directed speech (IDS). IDS benefits language
acquisition through amplified low-frequency amplitude modulations. It has been reported …

Child‐directed language can support language learning, but how? We addressed two
questions:(1) how caregivers prosodically modulated their speech as a function of word …

Purpose Fathers play a critical but underresearched role in their children's cognitive and
linguistic development. Focusing on two-parent families with a mother and a father, the …

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 …

This study examines correlations between the prosody of infant-directed speech (IDS) and
children's vocabulary size. We collected longitudinal speech data and vocabulary …

Purpose Differences across language environments of prelingually deaf children who
receive cochlear implants (CIs) may affect language acquisition; yet, whether mothers show …

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

This longitudinal study investigated the effects of maternal emotional health concerns, on
infants' home language environment, vocalization quantity, and expressive language skills …