Prosody in Infant-Directed Speech Is Similar across Western and Traditional Cultures

Autor/inn/en	Broesch, Tanya L.; Bryant, Gregory A.
Titel	Prosody in Infant-Directed Speech Is Similar across Western and Traditional Cultures
Quelle	In: Journal of Cognition and Development, 16 (2015) 1, S.31-43 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1524-8372
DOI	10.1080/15248372.2013.833923
Schlagwörter	Intonation; Suprasegmentals; Mothers; Syllables; Infants; Adults; Acoustics; Cross Cultural Studies; North Americans; Foreign Countries; Parent Child Relationship; Interpersonal Relationship; Educational Attainment; Parent Background; Western Civilization; Cultural Differences; Audio Equipment; Phonetics; Measurement; Fiji; Kenya + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Silbe; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Akustik; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Ausland; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Elternhaus; Kultureller Unterschied; Audio-CD; Phonetik; Fonetik; Messverfahren; Fidschi; Kenia
Abstract	When speaking to infants, adults typically alter the acoustic properties of their speech in a variety of ways compared with how they speak to other adults; for example, they use higher pitch, increased pitch range, more pitch variability, and slower speech rate. Research shows that these vocal changes happen similarly across industrialized populations, but no studies have carefully examined basic acoustic properties of infant-directed (ID) speech in traditional societies. Moreover, some scholars have suggested that ID speech is culturally specific and does not exist in some small-scale societies. We examined fundamental frequency (F[subscript 0]) production and speech rate in mothers speaking to both infants and adults in three cultures: Fijians, Kenyans, and North Americans. In all three cultures, speakers used higher F0 when speaking to infants relative to when speaking to other adults, and they also used significantly greater F0 variation and fewer syllables per second. Previous research has found that American mothers tend to use higher pitch than do mothers from other cultures, but when maternal education was controlled in the current study, we did not find a significant difference in average pitch across our three populations. This is the first research systematically comparing spontaneous ID and adult-directed speech prosody between Western and traditional societies, and it is consistent with a large body of evidence showing similar acoustic patterns in ID speech across industrialized populations. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01