Hang around any mom with a young child and eventually she'll break out her baby voice. It’s sometimes referred to as motherese, and it’s pretty vital to little ones’ development.
Hang around any mom with a young child and eventually she'll break out her baby voice. You know the one — the pitch of her voice goes up, her words are simple and exaggerated.
Researchers have known for a while that mothers change these more basic aspects of their speech, such as pitch and word choice, when they’re talking to their infants. But now, Piazza and her team“We use timbre descriptors all the time,” she explains. “For instance, the nasality of Gilbert Gottfried’s voice or the velvety tone of Pavarotti — we can discriminate these two speakers, even though they might be speaking in the same pitches. We also use timbre descriptors when talking about music.
And when they compared the timbre fingerprints from when moms were talking to their babies with those from when they were just talking to adults, the team found a distinct difference. That difference is apparent even in non-english speaking mothers, too. After seeing the results from the first group, the researchers tested 12 non-native English speakers in the same scenarios. Except, this time, the moms cooed at their babes in their native tongue.
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