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Andrew Cheng; Elise McClay; H. Henny Yeung – Language Learning and Development, 2024
Research on the acoustic characteristics of Infant Directed Speech (IDS) in North American English indicates that it is generally higher-pitched than Adult Directed Speech (ADS) and has unique prosodic characteristics, which is commonly found across many spoken languages. However, very little research has addressed another important aspect of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Infants, North American English
Andrew Cheng – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This dissertation documents a collection of sociolinguistic and sociophonetic studies of the speech of bilingual Korean Americans in California. Korean Americans are an ethnic minority in the United States whose speech patterns in Korean and English remain understudied. The goal of the studies is to begin sketching out the acoustic traits that…
Descriptors: Korean Americans, Pronunciation, Bilingualism, Korean