Infant directed speech (IDS) is the special speech register used to talk to human infants. This paper provides an historical and theoretical background to the study of IDS and special speech registers, as an introduction to four papers which follow. These are concerned with Australian IDS [2], Thai IDS [3,4], and Australian pet directed speech (PDS) [5]. 1. Infant Directed Speech A Brief Histor...

This study analyses variation sets in a sample of child-directed speech (CDS) Turkish terms their structure and effect on child speech. The term “variation set” was first introduced to describe the sequences repetitions, which intention behind expressions stays same throughout whole conversation while form shows constant variation. occurs various ways such as lexical substitution, rephrasing so...

Focusing on children’s production of the dative alternation in English, we examine whether children’s choices are influenced by the same factors that influence adults’ choices, and whether, like adults, they are sensitive to multiple factors simultaneously. We do so by using mixed-effect regression models to analyze child and child-directed datives extracted from the CHILDES corpus. Such models...

This paper presents a localist multimodal neural network that uses Hebbian learning to acquire one-word child language from child directed speech (CDS) comprising multiword utterances and queries in addition to one-word utterances. The model implements cross-situational learning between linguistic words used in child directed speech, the accompanying perceptual entities, conceptual relations an...

Young children learn language from the speech they hear. Previous work suggests that greater statistical diversity of words and of linguistic contexts is associated with better language outcomes. One potential source of lexical diversity is the text of picture books that caregivers read aloud to children. Many parents begin reading to their children shortly after birth, so this is potentially a...