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JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
Volume 119, Issue 3, Pages 1636-1647Publisher
ACOUSTICAL SOC AMER AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1121/1.2161443
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The fundamental frequencies (F0) of daily life utterances of Japanese infants and their parents from the infant's birth until about 5 years of age were longitudinally analyzed. The analysis revealed that an infant's F0 mean decreases as a function of month of age. It also showed that within- and between-utterance variability in infant F0 is different before and after the onset of two-word utterances, probably reflecting the difference between linguistic and nonlinguistic utterances. Parents' F0 mean is high in infant-directed speech (IDS) before the onset of two-word utterances, but it gradually decreases and reaches almost the same value as in adult-directed speech after the onset of two-word utterances. The between-utterance variability of parents' F0 in IDS is large before the onset of two-word utterances and it subsequently becomes smaller. It is suggested that these changes of parents' F0 are closely related to the feasibility of communication between infants and parents. (c) 2006 Acoustical Society of America.
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