Audiovisual alignment in child-directed speech facilitates word learning

Jesse, Alexandra; Johnson, Elizabeth K.

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Audiovisual alignment in child-directed speech facilitates word learning

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Jesse, Alexandra
Language Comprehension Group, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
Phonological Learning for Speech Perception , MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

Johnson, Elizabeth K.
Language Comprehension Group, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
Phonological Learning for Speech Perception , MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Jesse, A., & Johnson, E. K. (2008). Audiovisual alignment in child-directed speech facilitates word learning. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (pp. 101-106). Adelaide, Aust: Causal Productions.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-1FDA-A

Abstract

Adult-to-child interactions are often characterized by prosodically-exaggerated speech accompanied by visually captivating co-speech gestures. In a series of adult studies, we have shown that these gestures are linked in a sophisticated manner to the prosodic structure of adults' utterances. In the current study, we use the Preferential Looking Paradigm to demonstrate that two-year-olds can use the alignment of these gestures to speech to deduce the meaning of words.