Optimising Infant Directed Speech
It is well known that parents modify the qualities of their speech when they speak to their young infants. However, there are large individual differences in the extent to which each parents does so, and these differences relate significantly to the infants' language development.
In this study, we assess the effects of a brief training program on maximising the extent to which parents modify the qualities of their speech that can support their baby's language development.
Researchers are recruiting 8-12 month old monolingual infants to participate in this study. Please register or contact us directly to take part.
Researchers
Professor Denis Burnham (opens in a new window)
Maria Christou-Ergos (opens in a new window)
Caitlin Hooper (opens in a new window)
Partner / Funding Body
- Western Sydney University Early Career Researcher Fellowship
Human Research Ethics Committee Approval Number: H11517
For more information or to register your interest, please contact:
| Name | Maria Christou-Ergos |
| m.christou-ergos@westernsydney.edu.au | |
| Phone | +61 2 9772 6229 |
Research
- 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
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