Universality and specificity in infant-directed speech: Pitch modifications as a function of infant age and sex in a tonal and non-tonal language

By Christine Kitamura, Chayada Thanavishuth, Denis K. Burnham, Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin. 2001

227 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Sandra E. Trehub
2. Melanie Soderstrom
3. Gergely Csibra
4. T. Nakata
5. György Gergely
6. Tomer D. Ullman
7. Josh Tenenbaum
8. Michael Tomasello

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Melanie Soderstrom
2. Gergely Csibra
3. T. Nakata
4. Sandra E. Trehub
5. Janet F. Werker

Citations in the corpus

• Recognizing Communicative Intentions in Infancy (2010, background): “universal (Fernald, 1992), though culture-specific variations have also been found (e.g. Kitamura et al., 2001).”
• Infants' responsiveness to maternal speech and singing (2004, background): “Gender was included as a factor because of claims of greater social interest on the part of infant girls (e.g.,McClure, 2000) and more parental talk to infant girls than to boys (e.g.,Kitamura et al., 2002).”
• Chinese and English Infants' Tone Perception: Evidence for Perceptual Reorganization (2006, background): “F0 range occur in IDS compared to ADS (Grieser & Kuhl, 1988; Kitamura, Thanavisuth, Burnham, & Luksaneeyanawin, 2002 ).”
• Beyond babytalk: Re-evaluating the nature and content of speech input to preverbal infants (2007, background): “For example, British mothers had smaller increases in mean and mode frequency than American English speakers (Shute &Wheldall, 1995), and Thai speakers had smaller increases than Australian English speakers (Kitamura et al., 2002).”