The Role of Verbal Repetition in the Development of Infant Speech Preferences From 4 to 14 Months of Age

Infancy : the Official Journal of the International Society on Infant Studies
Gerald W McRobertsLaura Lakusta

Abstract

Four experiments investigated infants' preferences for age-appropriate and age-inappropriate infant-directed speech (IDS) over adult-directed speech (ADS). Two initial experiments showed that 6-, 10-, and 14-month-olds preferred IDS directed toward younger infants, and 4-, 8-, 10-, and 14-month-olds, but not 6-month-olds, preferred IDS directed toward older infants. In Experiment 3. 6-month-olds preferred IDS directed toward older infants when the frequency of repeated utterances matched IDS to younger infants. In Experiment 4, 6-month-olds preferred repeated IDS utterances over the same IDS utterances organized without repetition. Attention to repeated utterances precedes word segmentation and sensitivity to statistical cues in continuous speech, and might play a role in the discovery of these and other aspects of linguistic structure.

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Jun 27, 2013·Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research : JSLHR·Susie RobertsonJessica S Hay
Nov 19, 2013·Infancy : the Official Journal of the International Society on Infant Studies·Katharine Graf Estes, Karinna Hurley
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