<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
Dear All--
<br>May I ask for your assistance again ? One of my students is carrying
out a senior thesis on the nature of language directed at disabled individuals.
In one condition, she expects to observe something that looks (well, sounds)
like motherese, in another, not. A while back, it was suggested that PRAAT
would be the means of choice to carry out this sort of analysis but the
PRAAT folk tell us that they themselves have no experience with it and
even with their all-purpose helpful comments, it is by no means obvious
how to get started. Has anyone had experience doing this sort of thing
with PRAAT? We would be very grateful for any counsel.
<br>Carol Slater
<br>Department of Psychology
<br>Alma College
<br>Alma MI 48801
<br>P.S. Hope you all saw the nice discussion of CHILDES in Gopnik, Meltzoff
& Kuhl's <i>Scientist in the Crib.</i></html>