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Perceptual responses to infant crying: maternal recognition and sex judgments*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2008

Thomas Murry ,
Harry Hollien  and
Eric Müller
Thomas Murry
Affiliation:
Veterans' Administration Hospital, San Diego
Harry Hollien
Affiliation:
Communication Sciences Laboratory, University of Florida
Eric Müller
Affiliation:
Speech Physiology Laboratory, University of Washington
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Abstract

A perceptual study was conducted in order to determine (I) whether a group of mothers could recognize their own infant on the basis of tape-recorded cry samples obtained under three cry-evoking situations, and (2) whether an infant's sex could be correctly identified simply by listening to cry samples. The results of this study indicated that mothers could recognize the cry of their own infant with few instances of confusion and that the sex of an unknown infant cannot be reliably identified using a simple auditory identification paradigm.

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Journal of Child Language , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , November 1975 , pp. 199 - 204
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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