Quality of adult vocalizations affects the quality of infant vocalizations  

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Bloom, Kathleen

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Child Language (ada di PROQUEST) vol. 15 no. 3 (Oct. 1988), page 469-480.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JCL/15 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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The purpose of the present study was to determine whether the VERBAL component of baby talk affected the vocal quality of infants. Two groups of 20 0; 3 infants experienced either conversational turn taking or random responsiveness of an adult. Adult responsiveness consisted of a smile, light touch to the abdomen, and a NONVERBAL' tsk, tsk, tsk' sound (instead of speech). All infant vocalizations were counted and then coded as 'syllabic' or 'vocalic' sounds. The results of the study demonstrated that TURN TAKING facilitated a speak-listen pattern of vocalizing by the infant, but in the absence of the VERBAL component of the adult's response, turn taking had no special facilitative effect on syllabic sounds. It was concluded that what adults say to 3-month-old infants influences what infants' say' in return. Possible mechanisms underlying the infant's vocal response to verbal input were reviewed. It was suggested that the more mature sounds (syllabic) may proportionally increase as a result of the combined effects of turn-taking and verbal stimulation on the motor control of respiration and phonation.

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