Title
Audiovisual Alignment in Child-Directed Speech Facilitates Word Learning
Abstract
Adult-to-child interactions are often characterized by prosodically-exaggerated speech accompanied by visually captivating co-speech gestures. In a series of adult studies, we have shown that these gestures are linked in a sophisticated manner to the prosodic structure of adults' utterances. In the current study, we use the Preferential Looking Paradigm to demonstrate that two-year-olds can use the alignment of these gestures to speech to deduce the meaning of words. Index Terms: speech perception, audiovisual alignment, word learning
Year
Venue
Keywords
2008
AVSP
indexing terms,speech perception
Field
DocType
Citations 
Speech corpus,Speech analytics,Gesture,Computer science,Motor theory of speech perception,Speech recognition,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Speech perception,Speech error,Speech production,Speech shadowing
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexandra Jesse154.44
Elizabeth K. Johnson211.72