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Acoustic regularities in infant-directed speech and song across cultures

2020-04-11

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The forms of many species’ vocal signals are shaped by their functions 1–15 . In humans, a salient context of vocal signaling is infant care, as human infants are altricial 16, 17 . Humans often alter their vocalizations to produce “parentese”, speech and song produced for infants that differ acoustically from ordinary speech and song 18–35 in fashions that have been proposed to support parent-infant communicat...

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Literature Corpus work: 936521f0-f7e8-565a-8577-4a8601662004
DOI: 10.1101/2020.04.09.032995

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