Cross-generational Phonetic Alignment between Mothers and Their Children

IF 1.5 2区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Thomas St. Pierre, Angela Cooper, Elizabeth K. Johnson
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Abstract

ABSTRACT Over time, people who spend a lot of time together (e.g., roommates) begin sounding alike. Even over the course of short conversations, interlocutors often become more acoustically similar to one another. This phenomenon – known as phonetic alignment – has been well studied in adult interactions, but much less is known about alignment patterns in intergenerational, adult-child dyads. In the current study, we investigated alignment between mothers and their children in a picture-naming task, as assessed using a perceptual similarity task and acoustic measures. Experiments 1 and 2 examined alignment in 2.5- and 4-year-old children and their mothers, both when mothers shadowed their children (Experiment 1), and when children shadowed their mothers (Experiment 2). Experiments 3 and 4 investigated long-term similarity between mothers and children when they were recorded separately. Results show that children and mothers aligned to one another in the shadowing task, regardless of who shadowed whom, and while there was no evidence for long-term alignment in younger children, there was some evidence of long-term alignment with 8-year-old children and their moms, but only for male children.
母亲和孩子之间的跨代语音一致性
随着时间的推移,经常在一起的人(比如室友)听起来会越来越像。即使在简短的谈话过程中,对话者在声音上也会变得更加相似。这种被称为语音对齐的现象已经在成人互动中得到了很好的研究,但对代际、成人-儿童双体的语音对齐模式知之甚少。在当前的研究中,我们调查了母亲和孩子在图片命名任务中的一致性,使用感知相似性任务和声学测量来评估。实验1和2检查了2.5岁和4岁的孩子和他们的母亲,当母亲跟随他们的孩子时(实验1),当孩子跟随他们的母亲时(实验2)。实验3和4调查了母亲和孩子之间的长期相似性,当他们分开记录时。结果显示,孩子和母亲在跟随任务中彼此一致,无论谁跟随谁,虽然没有证据表明年幼的孩子长期一致,但有一些证据表明,8岁的孩子和他们的妈妈长期一致,但仅限于男孩。
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