Digital Infant Directed Speech (DIDS)

This research project aims to understand how parents with young infants use digital technology to communicate when they are geographically separated from their infant.

Families with an infant aged between 6 - 12 months will be invited to participate in this study at the MARCS BabyLab. Two brief interactions will be audio and video recorded for the researchers to analyse. Mothers will also complete a short interview following the interaction.

Researchers

Professor Paola Escudero(opens in a new window)

Dr Christa Lam-Cassettari(opens in a new window)

Professor Virginia Schmied

Nicole Traynor(opens in a new window)

Maria Christou-Ergos(opens in a new window)

Partner / Funding Body

• ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language - Transdisciplinary & Innovation Grant

Human Research Ethics Committee Approval Number: H13534

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Research

Research Focus

Research Projects

• Contingency in infant-directed speech: Neurophysiological and psycho-social responses in pre-linguistic infants
• Culture - Affect
• Effect of Postnatal Depression on Parent-Child Communication
• First Sounds and First Steps
• Functioning Listening Index (FLI)
• Many Babies
• Mummy, why does that lady talk funny?
• Optimising Infant Directed Speech
• Seeds of language development
• Speech adaptation: Neural mechanisms and stimulus information
• Speech Registers
• The role of properties of infant-directed speech on early word learning
• Visual Speech Benefit in Auditory-Visual Speech Perception: Infants, Children, Hearing Impairment
• Digital Infant Directed Speech (DIDS)
• Infants' sensitivity to lexical tone and stress in early speech perception

Publications

The Benefits of Multilingualism

OZI-SF Checklist Infant Vocabulary

OZI-LF Checklist Infant Vocabulary