English-Speaking Adults' Labeling of Child- and Adult-Directed Speech Across Languages and Its Relationship to Perception of Affect.

child-directed speech cross-language perception infant-directed speech positive affect universality

Journal

Frontiers in psychology
ISSN: 1664-1078
Titre abrégé: Front Psychol
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101550902

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2021
Historique:
received: 12 05 2021
accepted: 04 08 2021
entrez: 20 9 2021
pubmed: 21 9 2021
medline: 21 9 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Child-directed speech, as a specialized form of speech directed toward young children, has been found across numerous languages around the world and has been suggested as a universal feature of human experience. However, variation in its implementation and the extent to which it is culturally supported has called its universality into question. Child-directed speech has also been posited to be associated with expression of positive affect or "happy talk." Here, we examined Canadian English-speaking adults' ability to discriminate child-directed from adult-directed speech samples from two dissimilar language/cultural communities; an urban Farsi-speaking population, and a rural, horticulturalist Tseltal Mayan speaking community. We also examined the relationship between participants' addressee classification and ratings of positive affect. Naive raters could successfully classify CDS in Farsi, but only trained raters were successful with the Tseltal Mayan sample. Associations with some affective ratings were found for the Farsi samples, but not reliably for happy speech. These findings point to a complex relationship between perception of affect and CDS, and context-specific effects on the ability to classify CDS across languages.

Identifiants

pubmed: 34539509
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.708887
pmc: PMC8440885
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

708887

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2021 Soderstrom, Casillas, Gornik, Bouchard, MacEwan, Shokrkon and Bunce.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Auteurs

Melanie Soderstrom (M)

Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.

Marisa Casillas (M)

Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.

Megan Gornik (M)

Department of Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.

Alexis Bouchard (A)

Département d'Éducation, Université de Saint-Boniface, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.

Sarah MacEwan (S)

Department of Audiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Anahita Shokrkon (A)

Department of Psychological Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.

John Bunce (J)

Department of Human Development and Women's Studies, California State University East Bay, East Bay, CA, United States.

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