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Fernald, Anne, Traute Taeschner, Judy Dunn, Mechtild Papoušek, Bénédicte de Boysson-Bardies and Ikuko Fukui. 1989. A cross-language study of prosodic modifications in mothers' and fathers' speech to preverbal infants. Journal of Child Language 16 (3) : 477–501.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
baby talk | crosslinguistic perspective | prosody
Language as a subject
English, American | English, British | French | German | Italian | Japanese
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
0305-009
Journal WWW
journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study compares the prosodic modifications in parents' baby talk in six languages: French, Italian, British English, American English, German and Japanese. The findings present evidence for possibly universal prosodic characteristics of baby talk, yet also suggest the importance of language-specific variations.