The How and Why of Auditory-Visual Speech Perception: Affective and Articulatory Factors in Japanese and English Language Infants and Children

当我们与婴儿交谈时，我们的面部和声音的某些方面与我们与成年人交谈时相比会发生变化。在这个项目中，我们调查的性质的变化时，他们的脸和声音的母亲对婴儿，这些变化的情感或语言为基础的目的，以及婴儿和学童如何看待这些变化。我们以前的研究表明，视觉信息的使用更多的英语比日语，所以这些研究与这两个语言群体。研究结果将为我们提供更多关于语言学习、助听器使用和机器语音识别的信息。

When we talk to babies certain aspects of our face and voice change compared with when we talk to adults. In this project we investigate the nature of the changes mothers make to their face and voice when talking to infants, the emotional or language-based purpose of these changes, and how infants and schoolchildren perceive these changes. Our previous studies show that visual information is used more by English than Japanese language speakers, so these studies are investigated with both these language groups. The results will inform us more about language learning, hearing aid use, and speech recognition by machines.