Mother–Infant Conversation About Absent Things

Autor:	Sean Adwar, Catherine M. Gallerani, Megan M. Saylor
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language Here and now media_common.quotation_subject Mother infant Language and Linguistics Education Developmental psychology Nonverbal behavior Nonverbal communication Verbal cues Conversation Session (computer science) Psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Language Learning and Development. 5:282-293
ISSN:	1547-3341 1547-5441
DOI:	10.1080/15475440902897604
Popis:	Understanding utterances about absent entities is a pivotal developmental skill that expands communication beyond the here and now. The present study investigated whether mothers differentiated absent and present reference in their verbal and nonverbal behavior during a semi-structured free-play session with their 11-month-old infants. Infants' nonverbal behaviors were examined to investigate whether they demonstrated signs of differentiating between talk about present and absent things. The findings revealed that mothers relied on verbal cues to differentiate between absent versus present reference, and that infants showed some evidence of differentiating between such references. This research suggests that the emergence of absent reference may be supported by variations in mothers' speech.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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