Muneeb Ahmad

Research Intern

Research Program: Brain Sciences - Speech and Language

Research Project

Infant Stress Perception in Speech and Music

Infant-directed speech (IDS), also known as ‘baby talk’, facilitates early language processing and word learning. However, IDS has many different properties, including exaggerated positive emotion, vowel hyperarticulation, higher pitch and pitch variability, slower tempo, and shorter sentences. Here, we study how specific properties of the speech may be more important for word learning than others.

Supervisor

Associate Professor Gabrielle Weidemann, Nicole Traynor

Current Degree

• Bachelor of Psychology, Western Sydney University

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