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Incoming links: Prosody
Infant-directed speech 2026-10-24
Speech addressed to an infant, often differing in prosody from adult-directed speech. A listening preference is an experimentally measurable tendency whose magnitude can depend on the stimuli, the infant’s experience and the measurement method; it is not a universal individual trait.[ref]
Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed-speech preference by The ManyBabies Consortium. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 3, 24–52; Participants, preregistered analyses and Discussion
Speech segmentation 2026-10-24
Identifying candidate units in continuous speech. Sequential predictability, prosody and other cues may support different boundaries; discrimination of a familiarised unit does not alone demonstrate that it has been assigned a meaning.