Child-Directed Speech in Noise: Testing Signal- and Code-Based Phonetic Enhancement

CONCLUSIONS: Mothers readily enhance the suprasegmental signal properties of their speech in CDS, but not the acoustic-phonetic properties of phonemes. This study fails to provide evidence of phonetic enhancement in preschool children in a dyadic communication task under noisy listening conditions.SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL: https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.24645423.PMID:38039984 | DOI:10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00033

Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR - December 1, 2023 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Nicholas A Smith Christine A Hammans Timothy J Vallier Bob McMurray Source Type: research