Infant-directed speech by Dutch fathers: increased pitch variability within and across utterances

Title: Infant-directed speech by Dutch fathers: increased pitch variability within and across utterances
Creator: Benders, Titia; StGeorge, Jennifer; Fletcher, Richard
Relation: Language Learning and Development Vol. 17, Issue 3, p. 292-325
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15475441.2021.1876698
Publisher: Psychology Press
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2021
Description: Although both fathers and mothers speak differently in infant-directed speech (IDS) compared to adult-directed speech (ADS), the acoustic characteristics of present-day paternal IDS are still insufficiently understood. To extend this understanding, 11 fathers and 17 mothers in The Netherlands were recorded interacting with their infant (260-476 days old; for IDS) and with an adult experimenter (for ADS). Both fathers and mothers were found to raise their average pitch, expand their pitch variability within utterance, and increase their pitch variability across utterances in IDS. Moreover, fathers increased their pitch variability within and across utterances more than mothers. The IDS produced by present-day Dutch-speaking fathers is thus acoustically highly dynamic, in line with fathers' energetic interaction style.
Subject: Dutch fathers; interaction; infant; pitch variability
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1433420
Identifier: uon:39250
Identifier: ISSN:1547-5441
Language: eng
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