The Ability of Speaking Rate to Influence Infants' Preferences for Infant-Directed Speech

Much research has examined how rate affects visual preferences in human infants and auditory preferences in avian infants. In the visual domain, it seems that human infants prefer stimuli (e.g., flashing displays) presented at faster relative rates. Research using avian species has shown that duckli...

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Main Author: Cooper, Jamie S.
Other Authors: Psychology
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/10063
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-92498-10437