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How Do Infants Disaggregate Referential and Affective Pitch?

Infants are faced with a challenge of disaggregating functions of pitch in the ambient language into affective, pragmatic or referential (the latter in tone languages only). This mini review discusses several factors that might facilitate the disaggregation of referential and affective pitch in infa...

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Autor principal: Kager, René
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6220085/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30429817
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02093
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description Infants are faced with a challenge of disaggregating functions of pitch in the ambient language into affective, pragmatic or referential (the latter in tone languages only). This mini review discusses several factors that might facilitate the disaggregation of referential and affective pitch in infancy: acoustic characteristics of infant-directed speech, recognition of vocal affect, facial cues accompanying affective prosody, and lateralization of affective and referential prosody in the brain. It proposes two hypotheses concerning the role of audiovisual cues and brain lateralization
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spelling pubmed-62200852018-11-14 How Do Infants Disaggregate Referential and Affective Pitch? Kager, René Front Psychol Psychology Infants are faced with a challenge of disaggregating functions of pitch in the ambient language into affective, pragmatic or referential (the latter in tone languages only). This mini review discusses several factors that might facilitate the disaggregation of referential and affective pitch in infancy: acoustic characteristics of infant-directed speech, recognition of vocal affect, facial cues accompanying affective prosody, and lateralization of affective and referential prosody in the brain. It proposes two hypotheses concerning the role of audiovisual cues and brain lateralization Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC6220085/ /pubmed/30429817 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02093 Text en Copyright © 2018 Kager. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title_fullStr How Do Infants Disaggregate Referential and Affective Pitch?
title_full_unstemmed How Do Infants Disaggregate Referential and Affective Pitch?
title_short How Do Infants Disaggregate Referential and Affective Pitch?
title_sort how do infants disaggregate referential and affective pitch?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6220085/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30429817
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