{"id":342,"date":"2003-02-11T03:30:03","date_gmt":"2003-02-11T03:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=342"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:35:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:35:17","slug":"mom-coochy-coos-better-than-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=342","title":{"rendered":"mom coochy-coos better than dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A computer program has decided that women are  better than men at baby talk. Designed by Gerald McRoberts of Lehigh  University in Pennsylvania and Malcolm Slaney of IBM&#8217;s Almaden Research  Center in California, the program listens to speech and analyzes how  voice pitch, rhythm and stress &#8212; the emotional content of speech &#8212;  communicate meaning. Six sets of parents were evaluated. First, they  were told to encourage their babies, and then to warn them away from a  dangerous object. The program was able to correctly judge which were the  encouraging and discouraging comments 80 percent of the time. But, as <em> New Scientist<\/em> reported last week, the surprising result was that the  program was able to correctly identify 12 percent more of the comments  made by mothers, suggesting that women use less ambiguous sounds than  men when talking to babies. The researchers admit that the program may  not pick up all speech characteristics, but the study does show that men  and women talk to babies differently. <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 2\/11\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A computer program has decided that women are better than men at baby talk. Designed by Gerald McRoberts of Lehigh University in Pennsylvania and Malcolm Slaney of IBM&#8217;s Almaden Research Center in California, the program listens to speech and analyzes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=342\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/1237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}