Segmental properties of input to infants: a study of Korean

Segmental distributions of Korean infant-directed speech (IDS) and adult-directed speech (ADS) were compared. Significant differences were found in both consonant and vowel patterns. Korean-speaking mothers using IDS displayed more frequent labial consonantal place and less frequent coronal and glot...

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Published in:Journal of child language 2008-08, Vol.35 (3), p.591-617
Main Authors: LEE, SOYOUNG, DAVIS, BARBARA L., MACNEILAGE, PETER F.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adults
Asian Continental Ancestry Group
Babies
Biological and medical sciences
Caregivers
Child development
Child Language
Child-directed speech
Communication
Comparative Analysis
Consonants
Developmental psychology
Dictionaries
Environment
Female
Fricatives
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Infant
Infants
Korean
Korean language
Language Acquisition
Language Usage
Length (Phonological)
Linguistic Input
Maternal Behavior
Mother-Child Relations
Mothers
Newborn. Infant
Parent Child Relationship
Parents & parenting
Phonemes
Phonetics
Phonology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Semantics
Semitic Languages
Snow
Speech
Speech Communication
Speech disorders
Speech Production Measurement
Speech styles
Statistical Analysis
Studies
Verbal Behavior
Vowels
Young Children
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Summary:Segmental distributions of Korean infant-directed speech (IDS) and adult-directed speech (ADS) were compared. Significant differences were found in both consonant and vowel patterns. Korean-speaking mothers using IDS displayed more frequent labial consonantal place and less frequent coronal and glottal place and fricative manner. They showed more use of mid and low central vowels in IDS as well as more use of language-specific Korean phonemes. Mothers produced significantly more fortis and geminate and less lenis consonant phonemes in IDS than in ADS. Findings suggest that Korean mothers speaking to infants in the IDS speech style use sounds that more closely match infant production propensities as well as highlighting perceptually salient properties. IDS may serve to facilitate infant learning of ambient language phonological regularities.
ISSN:0305-0009
1469-7602
DOI:10.1017/S0305000908008684