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Acoustic cues to phrase and clause boundaries in infant-directed speech: Evidence from LENA recordings

Topic:

NA

Authors:

Wang, Yu, Huang, Lany

Journal/Publication:

Journal of Child Language

Year:

2023
Participant Age Range:
12 –
12 months

Sample Size:

49

Participant Language:

English

Abstract:

Infant-directed speech (IDS) produced in laboratory settings contains acoustic cues, such as pauses, pitch changes, and vowel-lengthening that could facilitate breaking speech into smaller units, such as syntactically well-formed utterances, and the noun-
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