Statistical properties of infant-directed versus adult-directed speech: Insights from speech recognition

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 4 I, 2005, Pages 2238-2246

  Kirchhoff, Katrin ^a   Schimmel, Steven ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; AUDITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; INFANT-DIRECTED SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICAL PATTERN RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFANT; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STATISTICS; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; CHILD; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PHONETICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 17644387211     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1869172     Document Type: Article

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