Speech Registers

PhD Student Project

Irena's thesis title is "The role of Infant-directed speech in language development in babies with hearing loss".

This study investigates how young infants perceive different speech registers via the electroencephalogram (EEG) procedure. The experiment involves baby sitting on parent's lap in front of a monitor and listening to different sounds presented over the loudspeakers.

During the session, baby's brain waves will be measured and recorded using an advanced EEG system which involves putting a smooth net of sensors on the baby's head. This system is certified for use with babies and it's completely painless. The study will last around 20 minutes.

Researchers

Irena Lovcevic (opens in a new window)

Academic Supervisors

Professor Denis Burnham (opens in a new window)

Dr Marina Kalashnikova (opens in a new window)

Partner / Funding Body

• Western Sydney University

Human Research Ethics Committee Approval Number: H11517

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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