Effects of social games on infant vocalizations*
| Autor: | Suneeti Nathani Iyer, Hui-Chin Hsu, Alan Fogel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Linguistics and Language Social understanding Contextual effects Context effect Social games Infant Experimental and Cognitive Psychology First year of life Mother-Child Relations Language and Linguistics Play and Playthings Developmental psychology Arousal Language development Nonverbal communication Infant Behavior Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Female Psychology General Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Child Language. 41:132-154 |
| ISSN: | 1469-7602 0305-0009 |
| Popis: | The aim of the present study was to examine the contextual effects of social games on prelinguistic vocalizations. The two main goals were to (1) investigate the functions of vocalizations as symptoms of affective arousal and symbols of social understanding, and (2) explore form–function (de)coupling relations between vocalization types and game contexts. Seventy-one six-month-olds and sixty-four twelve-month-olds played with their mothers in normal and perturbed tickle and peek-a-boo games. The effects of infant age, game, game climax, and game perturbation on the frequency and types of infant vocalizations were examined. Results showed twelve-month-olds vocalized more mature canonical syllables during peek-a-boo and more primitive quasi-resonant nuclei during tickle than six-month-olds. Six- and twelve-month-olds increased their vocalizations from the set-up to climax during peek-a-boo, but they did not show such an increase during tickle. Findings support the symptom function of prelinguistic vocalizations reflecting affective arousal and the prevalence of form–function decoupling during the first year of life. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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