This corpus of Singaporean English speech was recorded in 2016. Parents of children 0-6 years of age were asked to read an English language storybook as they would when interacting with their children. The goal was to elicit child-directed speech under different conditions, as cued by different versions of the storybook. Audio recordings were completed by BLIP Lab member Juanita Travers Kumar, under the guidance of Suzy J Styles.
Associated Pre-registrations:
• JJ Jerry Koh; Vanja Ković; Styles, Suzy J, 2019, "Preregistration Documents: Crossmodal influences between size and pitch in book reading for children In Singapore English",
https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/NOTQMI, DR-NTU (Data), V1
Associated Research Reports
• Juanita Travers Kumar (2017) Storytime: A pilot study on sound symbolism and child-directed speech, Final Year Project in Psychology, NTU. Supervisor: Suzy J Styles.
• JJ Jerry Koh (2019) Big Chilli and Small Mushroom: Crossmodal correspondence between pitch and size in child-directed speech in Singapore English. URECA Project in Psychology, NTU. Supervisor: Suzy J Styles.
Associated Pre-Prints & Publications
• Styles SJ, Travers Kumar J, Koh JJJ, Kovic V (in prep) Big chilis take longer to name: Iconicity modulates prosody for size but not shape when parents read storybooks aloud.
Associated Funding
• NTU Nanyang Assistant Professorship Start Up Grant to Styles SJ 'The Shape of Sounds in Singapore'
• NTU Undergraduate Research on Campus (URECA) Funding to JJ Jerry Koh.