The relationship between maternal speech clarity and infant language outcomes

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dc.contributor.advisorRatner, Nan Ben_US
dc.contributor.authorMcColgan, Kerryen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHearing and Speech Sciencesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-10-08T05:40:58Z
dc.date.available2011-10-08T05:40:58Z
dc.date.issued2011en_US
dc.description.abstractMothers' use of infant-directed speech (IDS) may assist infants in decoding language input. IDS is characterized by exaggerated prosodic features (Fernald, 1989), shorter mean length of utterance (Cooper, 1997; Bernstein Ratner, 1996), repetition (Bernstein Ratner, 1996), and more highly clarified acoustic qualities (Bernstein Ratner, 1984; Malsheen, 1980) in comparison to speech directed to adults. However, it is not yet known to what extent such measures of maternal input have long-term impacts on language development. This thesis seeks to test the overarching hypothesis that children who receive more clarified speech input during the prelinguistic stage may be expected to have better language skills at an earlier age than children who receive poorer quality input.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/11901
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSpeech therapyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledacousticen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledinfant-directeden_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmaternalen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledspeechen_US
dc.titleThe relationship between maternal speech clarity and infant language outcomesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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