The Attention-Getting Capacity of Whines and Child-Directed Speech
The current study tested the ability of whines and child-directed speech to attract the attention of listeners involved in a story repetition task. Twenty non-parents and 17 parents were presented with two dull stories, each playing to a separate ear, and asked to repeat one of the stories verbatim....
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2010-04-01
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| Series: | Evolutionary Psychology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491000800209 |