ERIC Number: EJ1218485
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019-Jul
Pages: 12
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Exploring the Association of Infant Receptive Language and Pitch Variability in Fathers' Infant-Directed Speech
Quigley, Jean; Nixon, Elizabeth; Lawson, Sarah
Journal of Child Language, v46 n4 p800-811 Jul 2019
The objective of this study was to examine the links between prosodic features of paternal Infant-Directed Speech (IDS) and child characteristics. Pitch variability measures were extracted from the speech samples of 50 fathers during unstructured play with their two-year-old children. Evidence for a link between child receptive language ability (measured by the Bayley Scales of Infant Development III) and fathers' pitch variability was obtained from Multiple Hierarchical Regression. Findings support the hypothesis that fathers tailor their speech to their children. This is one of the few studies to examine the relationship between fathers' IDS and child language ability.
Descriptors: Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Receptive Language, Fathers, Language Skills, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Speech Communication, Child Development, Correlation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Bayley Scales of Infant Development
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