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ERIC Number: EJ679096
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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ISSN: ISSN-0012-1649
The Temporal Coordination of Early Infant Communication.
Yale, Marygrace E.; Messinger, Daniel S.; Cobo-Lewis, Alan B.; Delgado, Christine F.
Developmental Psychology, v39 n5 p815-24 Sep 2003
A bootstrapping procedure was used to determine whether preverbal infants at 3- and 6-months sequenced (1) vocalizations, (2) gazes at their mothers' faces, and (3) facial expressions into pairs of coordinated patterns nonrandomly. Findings indicated that smiles and frowns were highly coordinated with vocalizations. Smiles were also coordinated with gazes at mothers' faces, which became stronger with age. Vocalizations were not coordinated with gazes at mothers' faces. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Facial Expressions, Individual Development, Infant Behavior, Infants, Interpersonal Communication, Longitudinal Studies, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Gaze Patterns; Infant Smiling; Infant Vocalization; Preverbal Communication; Temporal Patterning; Vocalization