A multimodal corpus of speech to infant and adult listeners | Zendy

Elizabeth K. Johnson | Zendy; Mybeth Lahey | Zendy; Mirjam Ernestus | Zendy; Anne Cutler | Zendy

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A multimodal corpus of speech to infant and adult listeners

Author(s) -

Elizabeth K. Johnson,

Mybeth Lahey,

Mirjam Ernestus,

Anne Cutler

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

the journal of the acoustical society of america

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619

H-Index - 187

eISSN - 1520-8524

pISSN - 0001-4966

DOI - 10.1121/1.4828977

Subject(s) - vocabulary , word (group theory) , psychology , linguistics , vocabulary development , computer science , philosophy

An audio and video corpus of speech addressed to 28 11-month-olds is described. The corpus allows comparisons between adult speech directed toward infants, familiar adults, and unfamiliar adult addressees as well as of caregivers' word teaching strategies across word classes. Summary data show that infant-directed speech differed more from speech to unfamiliar than familiar adults, that word teaching strategies for nominals versus verbs and adjectives differed, that mothers mostly addressed infants with multi-word utterances, and that infants' vocabulary size was unrelated to speech rate, but correlated positively with predominance of continuous caregiver speech (not of isolated words) in the input

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