A DESCRIPTION OF ASPECTS OF MOTHER‐INFANT VOCAL INTERACTION
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It was suggested that the mothers played the more active part in the regulation of the interaction by pacing their utterances to those of the child, although the child contributed by rarely interrupting ongoing utterances.
Abstract
SUMMARY This paper was concerned to describe aspects of the vocal interaction of working‐class mothers and their young children (average age 114 months). Information was provided about the frequency of vocalizations, the occurrence of simultaneous utterances and the distributions of speaker‐switch pauses. The results confirmed the finding of previous studies that the alternating mode of communication was predominant. On the basis of a new method of analysis it was suggested that the mothers played the more active part in the regulation of the interaction by pacing their utterances to those of the child, although the child contributed by rarely interrupting ongoing utterances.