Parents’ hyper-pitch and low vowel category variability in infant-directed speech are associated with 18-month-old toddlers’ expressive vocabulary

The present study examines the acoustic properties of infant-directed speech (IDS) as compared to adult-directed speech (ADS) in Norwegian parents of 18-month-old toddlers, and whether these properties relate to toddlers’ expressive vocabulary size. Twenty-one parent-toddler dyads from Tromsø, North...

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Published in:	Language Development Research
Main Authors:	Audun Rosslund, Gabriella Óturai, Julien Mayor, Natalia Kartushina
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Carnegie Mellon University Library Publishing Service 2022-10-01
Subjects:	infant-directed speech vocabulary language acqusition dialect Norwegian language acquisition
Online Access:	https://lps.library.cmu.edu/LDR/article/id/547/