Changes in infant directed speech in the
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Kjellrun Englund; Dawn Behne
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Article
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2006
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The Mother-Infant Phonetic Interaction model (MIPhI) predicts that, compared with adult directed speech (ADS), in infant directed speech (IDS) vowels will be overspecified and consonants underspecified during the infants' first 6 months. In a longitudinal natural study, six mothers' ADS and IDS were