When communicating with babies, we speak in a thinner voice and more melodiously. In this series of studies, we explore infants’ preferences for this type of communication. We measure how long babies listen to Turkish or English voice sections by presenting while they are on their parents’ lap or in a highchair.
In these studies, we aim to investigate the type of social inferences that infants make about infant-directed and adult-directed communications and their expectations for these types of communication. We show infants visual or auditory clips, measure how much they attend to these while they are seated on their parent's lap or in a high chair.
In this study, we aim to examine the scope and purpose of communication styles for infants. We collect voice recordings from mothers with infants while telling their infants about various objects. In an additional project which we conduct with adults, we also investigate the type of inferences that adults make about these styles of communication.
In this study, we examine how mothers and fathers communicate with their children since birth. Parents share their audio recordings with us on our website while talking naturally with their children (for example; the last book they read together or their visit to the zoo).
