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Publication details [#36589]

Masataka, Nobuo. 1992. Pitch characteristics of Japanese maternal speech to infants. Journal of Child Language 19 (2) : 213–223.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

attention | child language | motherese | pitch | utterance

Language as a subject

Japanese

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0305-009

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study demonstrates that pitch characteristics of Japanese motherese are altered in repeated utterances for child attention-getting, and that only exaggerated maternal utterances can significantly predict the contour of subsequent child response.