Journal article
From ‘ah’ to ‘bah’: social feedback loops for speech sounds at key points of developmental transition
Journal of child language, Vol.45(3), pp.807-825
05/2018
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000917000472
PMID: 29143696
Abstract
Social feedback is a driving force for speech development. A recent study provided a key finding to explain how contingent responses influence developmental change: infant speech-related vocalizations are contingent on responses to prior speech-related vocalizations (Warlaumont et al., 2014). However, the study did not distinguish between different speech-related vocalizations, vowel-like (V) and consonant–vowel (CV) vocalizations, which is important because CV vocalizations are a precursor to words. The present study explored parents’ responses to infants’ vocalizations and infants’ subsequent vocal production at a point when vocalizations become more like adult speech. The relative proportion of CVs following contingent responses to CV did not differ between 10- and 12-months-olds; however, there was only a significant contingent relationship between responses to CV and subsequent CV production in 12-month-olds. Results suggest a developmental transition and a social feedback loop for the production of more developmentally advanced sounds when infants are learning their first words.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- From ‘ah’ to ‘bah’: social feedback loops for speech sounds at key points of developmental transition
- Creators
- Julie GROS-LOUIS - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Iowa, USAJennifer L MILLER - Department of Psychology, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of child language, Vol.45(3), pp.807-825
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press; Cambridge, UK
- DOI
- 10.1017/S0305000917000472
- PMID
- 29143696
- ISSN
- 0305-0009
- eISSN
- 1469-7602
- Number of pages
- 19
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/2018
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984002312402771
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