INTONATION AND COMMUNICATIVE INTENT IN MOTHERS SPEECH TO INFANTS - IS THE MELODY THE MESSAGE
INTONATION AND COMMUNICATIVE INTENT IN MOTHERS SPEECH TO INFANTS - IS THE MELODY THE MESSAGE
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-8624.1989.tb04020.x
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发表时间：
1989-12-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
FERNALD, A
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作者：
FERNALD, A
本研究探讨了语调在对言语前婴儿和对成人的言语中传达说话者交际意图的有意义信息的能力。自然样本的婴儿和成人为导向的语音记录从5个母亲的12个月大的婴儿，在5个标准化的international上下文：注意出价，批准，禁止，舒适，和游戏/电话。对25个婴儿定向和25个成人定向发声进行电子过滤，以消除语言内容。内容过滤的语音刺激，提出了80名成年人的主题：40名经验丰富的父母和40名学生没有经验的婴儿。受试者的任务是在5个选项的强迫选择下，仅使用韵律信息来识别说话人的交际意图。听者能够使用语调来识别说话者的意图，在婴儿导向的语音中的准确率显著高于成人导向的语音。这些研究结果表明，语音的韵律模式，以婴儿比那些成人-成人的讲话，并可能提供可靠的线索，说话者的交际意图。对这些结果的解释是，韵律形式与交际功能的关系在母亲说话的旋律中表现得尤为突出，这些特征性的韵律模式对前言语期婴儿具有潜在的意义。
This study explores the power of intonation to convey meaningful information about the communicative intent of the speaker in speech addressed to preverbal infants and in speech addressed to adults. Natural samples of infant- and adult-directed speech were recorded from 5 mothers of 12-month-old infants, in 5 standardized interactional contexts: Attention-bid, Approval, Prohibition, Comfort, and Game/Telephone. 25 infant-directed and 25 adult-directed vocalizations were electronically filtered to eliminate linguistic content. The content-filtered speech stimuli were presented to 80 adult subjects: 40 experienced parents and 40 students inexperienced with infants. The subjects'' task was to identify the communicative intent of the speaker using only prosodic information, given a 5-alternative forced choice. Listeners were able to use intonation to identify the speaker''s intent with significantly higher accuracy in infant-directed speech than in adult-directed speech. These findings suggest that the prosodic patterns of speech to infants are more informative than those of adult-adult speech, and may provide the infant with reliable cues to the communicative intent of the speaker. The interpretation of these results proposed here is that the relation of prosodic form to communicative function is made uniquely salient in the melodies of mothers'' speech, and that these characteristic prosodic patterns are potentially meaningful to the preverbal infant.