In this episode, Lauren Ryan interviews Dr Titia Benders about her paper:
Benders, T. (2007). Six-month-old infants prefer speech with raised formant frequencies. Infancy. 22, 6, p. 778-789.
0:45 Titia discusses misconceptions and confusion around her research.
2:15 Debunking infant-directed speech and speech acquisition misconceptions
4:07 Discussing the “Head Turn Preference Procedure”.
6:50 Why it’s hard to make inferences about the meaning of infants behavior.
8:45 Challenges of infant research and how to make them comfortable.
10:35 The use of female speakers for infant research. Cultural and language differences.
14:35 The effect of different formant frequencies.
16:50 Future avenues for research including fathers and breathiness.
You can access the paper at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/infa.12190
