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Formant frequencies for vowels produced by American (A) and Russian (B) mothers as they talked to their infants (solid symbols) and to another adult (open symbols), indicating that vowels in infant-directed speech are acoustically exaggerated. [Reproduced with permission from ref. 106 (Copyright 1997, American Association for the Advancement of Science).]
