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Ludusan, Bogdan; Mazuka, Reiko; Dupoux, Emmanuel – Cognitive Science, 2021
A prominent hypothesis holds that by speaking to infants in infant-directed speech (IDS) as opposed to adult-directed speech (ADS), parents help them learn phonetic categories. Specifically, two characteristics of IDS have been claimed to facilitate learning: "hyperarticulation," which makes the categories more "separable," and…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Language, Speech Communication, Phonetics