Speech Prosody 2022, 23-26 May 2022, Lisbon, Portugal One important function of infant-directed speech (IDS) is to ex-press positive emotions towards the baby. This has been shownbased on prosodic parameters before, but parameters such asf0 and energy encode emotion expression only indirectly. Inthis study, we aim to access emotion expression (arousal andvalence) in IDS directly, through labellers’ perception. Record-ings were made in the first 18 months of the baby: in the ageof 0, 4, 8 and 18 months.
May 2022, DOI:10.21437/SpeechProsody.2022-120, Conference: Speech Prosody 2022