Relationships between structural and acoustic properties of maternal talk and children’s early word recognition

摘要: This study aimed to investigate specific associations between structural and acoustic characteristics of infant-directed (ID) speech word recognition. Thirty Italian-acquiring children their mothers were tested when the 1;3. Children’s recognition was measured with looking-while-listening task. Maternal ID recorded during a mother–child interaction session analyzed in terms amount speech, lexical syntactic complexity, positional salience nouns verbs, high pitch variation, temporal characteristics. The analyses revealed that final syllable length positively predicts children’s accuracy whereas use verbs utterance-final position has an adverse effect on performance. Several expected features skills, however, not significant. Taken together, these findings suggest only properties ...