Motherese by eye and ear: infants perceive visual prosody in point-line displays of talking heads.

Infant-directed (ID) speech provides exaggerated auditory and visual prosodic cues. Here we investigated if infants were sensitive to the match between the auditory and visual correlates of ID speech prosody. We presented 8-month-old infants with two silent line-joined point-light displays of faces...

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Main Authors: Christine Kitamura, Bahia Guellaï, Jeesun Kim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4213016?pdf=render