Infant-Directed Speech Facilitates Word Segmentation.

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Early language acquisition: cracking the speech code (2004, background): “The pervasive use of motherese ( Box 4 ) by adults is a social response that adjusts to the needs of infant listener”
Infant-Directed Speech Is Modulated by Infant Feedback (2008, background): “…and regulation (Singh et al., 2002; Trainor et al., 2000), attentional control (Kaplan et al., 1995), or language acquisition (e.g., Fernald & Mazzie, 1991; Thiessen et al., 2005; Werker et al., 2007), infant feedback may provide important signals to the adult as to how the “message” was received.”
Learning to Learn: Infants’ Acquisition of Stress-Based Strategies for Word Segmentation (2007, background): “preference regularly occur in experiments of this type (e.g., Thiessen, Hill, & Saffran, 2005 ).”
Beyond babytalk: Re-evaluating the nature and content of speech input to preverbal infants (2007, background): “The small number of studies directly comparing infants’ performance on linguistic tasks with ID and AD speech (e.g. Jusczyk et al., 1992; Thiessen et al., 2005) suggest that in general ID speech is often helpful, but not necessary, for infants to succeed at linguistic tasks.”