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Speech vs. singing: infants choose happier sounds
Infants prefer speech to non-vocal sounds and to non-human vocalizations, and they prefer happy-sounding speech to neutral speech. They also exhibit an interest in singing, but there is little knowledge of their relative interest in speech and singing. The present study explored infants' attent...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3693090/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23805119 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00372 |
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author | Corbeil, Marieve Trehub, Sandra E. Peretz, Isabelle |
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description | Infants prefer speech to non-vocal sounds and to non-human vocalizations, and they prefer happy-sounding speech to neutral speech. They also exhibit an interest in singing, but there is little knowledge of their relative interest in speech and singing. The present study explored infants' attention to unfamiliar audio samples of speech and singing. In Experiment 1, infants 4–13 months of age were exposed to happy-sounding infant-directed speech vs. hummed lullabies by the same woman. They listened significantly longer to the speech, which had considerably greater acoustic variability and expressiveness, than to the lullabies. In Experiment 2, infants of comparable age who heard the lyrics of a Turkish children's song spoken vs. sung in a joyful/happy manner did not exhibit differential listening. Infants in Experiment 3 heard the happily sung lyrics of the Turkish children's song vs. a version that was spoken in an adult-directed or affectively neutral manner. They listened significantly longer to the sung version. Overall, happy voice quality rather than vocal mode (speech or singing) was the principal contributor to infant attention, regardless of age. |
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spelling | pubmed-36930902013-06-26 Speech vs. singing: infants choose happier sounds Corbeil, Marieve Trehub, Sandra E. Peretz, Isabelle Front Psychol Psychology Infants prefer speech to non-vocal sounds and to non-human vocalizations, and they prefer happy-sounding speech to neutral speech. They also exhibit an interest in singing, but there is little knowledge of their relative interest in speech and singing. The present study explored infants' attention to unfamiliar audio samples of speech and singing. In Experiment 1, infants 4–13 months of age were exposed to happy-sounding infant-directed speech vs. hummed lullabies by the same woman. They listened significantly longer to the speech, which had considerably greater acoustic variability and expressiveness, than to the lullabies. In Experiment 2, infants of comparable age who heard the lyrics of a Turkish children's song spoken vs. sung in a joyful/happy manner did not exhibit differential listening. Infants in Experiment 3 heard the happily sung lyrics of the Turkish children's song vs. a version that was spoken in an adult-directed or affectively neutral manner. They listened significantly longer to the sung version. Overall, happy voice quality rather than vocal mode (speech or singing) was the principal contributor to infant attention, regardless of age. Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-06-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3693090/ /pubmed/23805119 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00372 Text en Copyright © 2013 Corbeil, Trehub and Peretz. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in other forums, provided the original authors and source are credited and subject to any copyright notices concerning any third-party graphics etc. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Corbeil, Marieve Trehub, Sandra E. Peretz, Isabelle Speech vs. singing: infants choose happier sounds |
title | Speech vs. singing: infants choose happier sounds |
title_full | Speech vs. singing: infants choose happier sounds |
title_fullStr | Speech vs. singing: infants choose happier sounds |
title_full_unstemmed | Speech vs. singing: infants choose happier sounds |
title_short | Speech vs. singing: infants choose happier sounds |
title_sort | speech vs. singing: infants choose happier sounds |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3693090/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23805119 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00372 |
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