Katharina: Here are a few suggestions that may be of use to you:

** Cruttenden, A. (1994). Phonetic and prosodic aspects of Baby Talk. In C. Gallaway & B. J. Richards (Eds.), Input and interaction in language acquisition (pp. 135-152). Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press. (This study concerns English.) Book URL:

http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/psycholinguistics-and-neurolinguistics/input-and-interaction-language-acquisition

** Segal, O., Nir-Sagiv, B., Kishon-Rabin, L., & Ravid, D. (2009). Prosodic patterns in Hebrew child-directed speech. Journal of Child Language, 36(3), 629-656.

doi: 10.1017/S030500090800915X

** Soroush Vosoughi & Deb Roy, ‘Effects of caregiver prosody on child language acquisition’

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.184.2805

** Soroush Vosoughi, ‘A longitudinal study of prosodic exaggeration in child-directed speech’, here on ResearchGate:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254257916_A_longitudinal_study_of_prosodic_exaggeration_in_child-directed_speech

**The CHILDES database ( http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/ ) is another place to look. It is freely accessible online and includes synchronised audio/video transcripts. You can download the database manuals to check which corpora address or contain IDS:

http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/manuals/

If you’re specifically looking for German/Germanic languages, have a look under ‘Germanic’ here:

http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/browser/

All best for your research!

Madalena

Conference Paper A longitudinal study of prosodic exaggeration in child-directed speech

Dear Ms Zahner,

Some relevant literature on this topic:

http://prosodia.upf.edu/activitats/prosodicdevelopment/abstracts/pd-abstract_payne.pdf

some more references:

Albin, D. D., and Echols, C. H. (1996). Characteristics of stressed and word-final syllables in

infant-directed speech: Implications for word-level segmentation. Infant Behavior and

Development, 19, 401-418.

Cooper, R. P., & Aslin, R. N. (1989). The language environment of the young infant:

Implications for early perceptual development. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 43, 247–265.

Dominey, P. F. and Dodane, C. (2004). Indeterminacy in language acquisition: the role of child

directed speech and joint attention. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 17, 121-145.

Fernald, A. (2000). Speech to Infants as Hyperspeech: Knowledge-Driven Processes in Early

Word Recognition. Phonetica 57: 242-254.

Fernald, A. and Mazzie, C. (1991). Prosody and focus in speech to infants and adults.

Developmental Psychology, 27(2), 209-221.

Fernald, A. and Simon, T. (1984). Expanded intonation contours in mothers' speech to

newborns. Developmental Psychology, 20(1), 104-113.

Garnica, O., (1977). Some prosodic and paralinguistic features of speech to young children. In

Snow, C.E. and Ferguson, C.A., (Eds.), Talking to children: Language input and acquisition, (pp.

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Gleitman, L. R., Gleitman, H., Landau, B., & Wanner, E. (1988). Where learning begins: initial

representations for language learning. In F. J. Newmeyer (Ed.), Linguistics: The Cambridge

survey Vol. 3. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

Grieser, D. L., and Kuhl, P. K. (1988). Maternal speech to infants in a tonal language: Support

for universal prosodic features in motherese. Developmental Psychology, 24(1), 14-20.

Hirsh-Pasek, K., Kemler Nelson, D. G., Jusczyk, P. W., Wright Cassidy, K., Druss, B., & Kennedy,

L. (1987). Clauses are perceptual units for young infants. Cognition, 26, 269-286.

Kemler Nelson, D.G., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Jusczyk, P.W., and Cassidy, K.W. (1989). How the prosodic

cues in motherese might assist language learning. Journal of Child Language, 16, 55-68.

Payne, E., Post, B., Astruc, L., Prieto, P., & Vanrell, M. (under revision) Measuring child rhythm.

Speech and Language.

Post, B. (2010) Phonological factors in rhythmic development: A cross-linguistic study.

Workshop on Prosodic Development, Universita Pompeu Fabra.

Stern, D., Spieker, S., & MacKain, K. (1982). Intonation contours as signals in maternal speech

to prelinguistic infants. Developmental Psychology, 18, 727–735.

Werker, J. F., & McLeod, P. J. (1989). Infant preference for both male and female infantdirected

talk: a developmental study of attentional affective responsiveness. Canadian Journal

of Psychology, 43, 230–246.

White L. and S. Mattys (2007) Calibrating rhythm: First language and second language studies.

Journal of Phonetics, 35, 501-522.

Greetings, all the best to your research, I'd love to hear about your findings too!

Zs.Schnell

Dear Madalena, dear Zsuzsanna,

thank you so much for your interesting references. These papers are very helpful. We are also thinking on running a production study ourselves. I'll let you know about my findings! Thank you!

Katharina

Hi Katharina, 

My lab has a corpus study of just the type you describe which we plan to submit for publication within the next year. 

Regards, 

Laura Dilley

Michigan State University