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English-Speaking Adults' Labeling of Child- and Adult-Directed Speech Across Languages and Its Relationship to Perception of Affect

Child-directed speech, as a specialized form of speech directed toward young children, has been found across numerous languages around the world and has been suggested as a universal feature of human experience. However, variation in its implementation and the extent to which it is culturally suppor...

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Autores principales: Soderstrom, Melanie, Casillas, Marisa, Gornik, Megan, Bouchard, Alexis, MacEwan, Sarah, Shokrkon, Anahita, Bunce, John
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8440885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34539509
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.708887
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author Soderstrom, Melanie
Casillas, Marisa
Gornik, Megan
Bouchard, Alexis
MacEwan, Sarah
Shokrkon, Anahita
Bunce, John
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Casillas, Marisa
Gornik, Megan
Bouchard, Alexis
MacEwan, Sarah
Shokrkon, Anahita
Bunce, John
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description Child-directed speech, as a specialized form of speech directed toward young children, has been found across numerous languages around the world and has been suggested as a universal feature of human experience. However, variation in its implementation and the extent to which it is culturally supported has called its universality into question. Child-directed speech has also been posited to be associated with expression of positive affect or “happy talk.” Here, we examined Canadian English-speaking adults' ability to discriminate child-directed from adult-directed speech samples from two dissimilar language/cultural communities; an urban Farsi-speaking population, and a rural, horticulturalist Tseltal Mayan speaking community. We also examined the relationship between participants' addressee classification and ratings of positive affect. Naive raters could successfully classify CDS in Farsi, but only trained raters were successful with the Tseltal Mayan sample. Associations with some affective ratings were found for the Farsi samples, but not reliably for happy speech. These findings point to a complex relationship between perception of affect and CDS, and context-specific effects on the ability to classify CDS across languages.
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spelling pubmed-84408852021-09-16 English-Speaking Adults' Labeling of Child- and Adult-Directed Speech Across Languages and Its Relationship to Perception of Affect Soderstrom, Melanie Casillas, Marisa Gornik, Megan Bouchard, Alexis MacEwan, Sarah Shokrkon, Anahita Bunce, John Front Psychol Psychology Child-directed speech, as a specialized form of speech directed toward young children, has been found across numerous languages around the world and has been suggested as a universal feature of human experience. However, variation in its implementation and the extent to which it is culturally supported has called its universality into question. Child-directed speech has also been posited to be associated with expression of positive affect or “happy talk.” Here, we examined Canadian English-speaking adults' ability to discriminate child-directed from adult-directed speech samples from two dissimilar language/cultural communities; an urban Farsi-speaking population, and a rural, horticulturalist Tseltal Mayan speaking community. We also examined the relationship between participants' addressee classification and ratings of positive affect. Naive raters could successfully classify CDS in Farsi, but only trained raters were successful with the Tseltal Mayan sample. Associations with some affective ratings were found for the Farsi samples, but not reliably for happy speech. These findings point to a complex relationship between perception of affect and CDS, and context-specific effects on the ability to classify CDS across languages. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8440885/ /pubmed/34539509 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.708887 Text en Copyright © 2021 Soderstrom, Casillas, Gornik, Bouchard, MacEwan, Shokrkon and Bunce. https://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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Soderstrom, Melanie
Casillas, Marisa
Gornik, Megan
Bouchard, Alexis
MacEwan, Sarah
Shokrkon, Anahita
Bunce, John
English-Speaking Adults' Labeling of Child- and Adult-Directed Speech Across Languages and Its Relationship to Perception of Affect
title English-Speaking Adults' Labeling of Child- and Adult-Directed Speech Across Languages and Its Relationship to Perception of Affect
title_full English-Speaking Adults' Labeling of Child- and Adult-Directed Speech Across Languages and Its Relationship to Perception of Affect
title_fullStr English-Speaking Adults' Labeling of Child- and Adult-Directed Speech Across Languages and Its Relationship to Perception of Affect
title_full_unstemmed English-Speaking Adults' Labeling of Child- and Adult-Directed Speech Across Languages and Its Relationship to Perception of Affect
title_short English-Speaking Adults' Labeling of Child- and Adult-Directed Speech Across Languages and Its Relationship to Perception of Affect
title_sort english-speaking adults' labeling of child- and adult-directed speech across languages and its relationship to perception of affect
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8440885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34539509
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.708887
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