Emotion-related explanations of the vowel variability in infant-directed speech

Titia Benders

Emotion-related explanations of the vowel variability in infant-directed speech

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Abstract

Speech is inherently variable, and so is Infant-Directed Speech (IDS). IDS is also a highly emotional register. In two listenerrating studies of Dutch IDS, we explore emotion-related explanations for (Exp 1) and consequences of (Exp 2) the acoustic differences between IDS vowel tokens. Listeners rated IDS utterances on valence and energy (Exp 1) and on the perception of smiles and child-like speech (Exp 2). The predicted association between valence and formant frequencies was not found (Exp 1), but a higher second formant results in a more smiled and more child-like percept (Exp 2).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
Editors	Christopher Carignan, Michael D. Tyler
Place of Publication	Canberra, ACT
Publisher	Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA)
Pages	233-236
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (16th : 2016) - Parramatta, Australia Duration: 6 Dec 2016 → 9 Dec 2016 Conference number: 16th

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Name	Proceedings of the Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
Publisher	Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA)
ISSN (Electronic)	2207-1296

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Conference	Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (16th : 2016)
Abbreviated title	SST2016
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Parramatta
Period	6/12/16 → 9/12/16

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Benders, T. (2016). Emotion-related explanations of the vowel variability in infant-directed speech. In C. Carignan, & M. D. Tyler (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 233-236). (Proceedings of the Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA).

Benders, Titia. / Emotion-related explanations of the vowel variability in infant-directed speech. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. editor / Christopher Carignan ; Michael D. Tyler. Canberra, ACT : Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA), 2016. pp. 233-236 (Proceedings of the Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology).

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Benders, T 2016, Emotion-related explanations of the vowel variability in infant-directed speech. in C Carignan & MD Tyler (eds), Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. Proceedings of the Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA), Canberra, ACT, pp. 233-236, Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (16th : 2016), Parramatta, Australia, 6/12/16.

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Benders T. Emotion-related explanations of the vowel variability in infant-directed speech. In Carignan C, Tyler MD, editors, Proceedings of the Sixteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. Canberra, ACT: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA). 2016. p. 233-236. (Proceedings of the Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology).

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