Quantitative measures of child-directed speech across language communities

BUNCE, J. ; BERGELSON, E. ; ROSEMBERG, C. ; STEIN, A.; SODERSTROM, M.; CASILLAS, M.

Congreso; 15th Congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language; 2021

The aim of the study is to analyze child directed speech in different lenguaje communities from ACLEW metacarpus. The analyses used Zero Inflated Negative Binomial Mixed-effects RegressionMeasures included:○ Quantity of speech (minutes per hour)○ Language Family (e.g., Arg. Spanish, Yeli Dnye)○ Addressee (Target Child-directed Speech (TCDS)/ Adult-directed speech (ADS)) ○ Speaker Type (Woman/Man/Child)○ Number of speakers present○ Child?s age (months)Results showed the majority of child-directed speech in children?s environments comes from adult females. ● The relative rates of adult-, target child-, and child-directed speech across communities are highly variable.