Infant Directed Speech Summary

Reflexive sounds in infants are the first sounds infants produce and include sounds of discomfort and distress like crying and fussing. They also include vegetative sounds such as burping, sneezing, and coughing.

Infant directed speech is the speech that adults use when communicating with babies and is used with a high pitch tone. Infant directed speech includes several distinctive paralinguistic, syntactic, and discourse characteristics which includes; slower tempos, shorter mean length of utterances and the use of repetition and questioning.

In Dr. Janet Worker’s video about babies Tuning into Speech Sounds, the reinforcer for the baby was the bunny that would light up and play sounds for the baby as a reward.

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