Adult preferences for syllabic vocalizations: Generalizations to parity and native language

Bloom, Kathleen; D’Odorico, Laura; Beaumont, Sherry L.

doi:10.1016/0163-6383(93)80032-4

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“…Other recent findings suggest that 3-month-olds' production of syllabic vocalizations positively influence adult judgments of the infants' attractiveness as social partners (Bloom, 1990;Bloom, D'Odorico, & Beaumont, 1993). Consideration of the present findings and previous work in the context of the intuitive parenting construct (Papousek & Papousek, 1979, 1987, which focuses on the adjustments and decisions made within the caregiver-infant dyad without conscious formalization, suggests that prelinguistic phrasing may be an important aspect of the intuitive bond that exists between caregivers and infants because it provides universal communicative frames of infant-caregiver interaction before developmental availability of linguistic communication.…”

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Phrasing in prelinguistic vocalizations

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Oller

Steffens

et al. 1995

Developmental Psychobiology

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Phrasing is a universal characteristic of human communication, and the present investigation explored its developmental roots in nonvegetative, prelinguistic vocalizations. Adult judges identified a hierarchical arrangement of syllables embedded within utterances and utterances embedded within prelinguistic phrases in the vocalizations of infants. Prelinguistic phrases were characterized by systematic lengthening of phrase final syllables, temporal patterning, and stable durations across development that were similar to those of some cross-culturally optimal rhythmic units from other domains. Analyses of vocalizations of infants with Down syndrome indicated similar internal structure of prelinguistic phrases to those of typically developing infants, but with longer durations. These findings suggest that relative durational characteristics of prelinguistic phrasing are stable features of early vocal behavior, although the absolute durational characteristics of prelinguistic phrases can be impacted by a complex and severe disorder such as Down syndrome.

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Phrasing in prelinguistic vocalizations

Lynch

Oller

Steffens

et al. 1995

Developmental Psychobiology

114

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“…Prelinguistic sounds are often considered to be biologically predetermined, 45 and the development of vocal learning is assumed to follow an internal program of physiological and cognitive maturation. This theory is supported by our investigations.…”

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Vocal Expression of Emotions in Normally Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Infants

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“…This questionnaire has been used and evaluated in previous studies (e.g. Bloom, 1993;Bloom, D'Odorico, & Beaumont, 1993;Bloom & Lo, 1990). The questionnaire was preceded by the following instructions: "After viewing each infant, please circle the number that corresponds to your feelings about that infant.…”

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“…For example, when controlled for child-care experience, mothers and nonmothers do not differ ; and compared with Italians, Canadians show stronger reactions to the affordance of acoustic vocal quality (Bloom, D'Odorico, & Beaumont, 1993). Culture, as it applies to social interactions, may also serve to modulate (attune) adult attributions to vocalising infants.…”

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Japanese and Canadian Impressions of Vocalising Infants

Bloom¹

1996

International Journal of Behavioral Development

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Canadian adults use cues that are part of adult speech (voice quality and mouth movements) to create perceptions of prelinguistic, 3-month-old infants as communicative partners. To what degree do cultural differences modulate social attributions of infants? It is thought that Japanese pay less attention to the visual cues that accompany speech, and so we hypothesised that, compared with Canadians, Japanese adults would be less likely to use mouth movement cues, but equally likely to use voice cues, in forming social perceptions of infants. To test this hypothesis, a video tape of 3-month-old, vocalising infants was presented to three (n 5 25) groups of adults in Japan and in Canada. The tape was constructed with dubbing so that all combinations of acoustic (syllabic/vocali c) and visual (mouth moving/not moving) conditions were represented. The conditions of tape presentation differed for the three groups in each nation: Audio/Video, Audio-only, Video-only. Infants were rated on characteristics of social favourability and communicative intent. In the absence of audio cues (Video-only group), adult ratings were in uenced by the infant's mouth movements and by the adult's culture. Although both Canadians and Japanese gave higher ratings of social favourability and communicative intent to infants whose mouths moved, the preference for mouth movement was signi cantly weaker for Japanese. The fact that Japanese paid less attention to features of the mouth of the infant is consistent with past cross-cultura l research and with the minor role of facial cues in Japanese Sign Language. Our research demonstrated that adults apply cultural rules of adult conversation when responding to preverbal infants.

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Adult preferences for syllabic vocalizations: Generalizations to parity and native language

Cited by 38 publications

References 15 publications

Phrasing in prelinguistic vocalizations

Phrasing in prelinguistic vocalizations

Vocal Expression of Emotions in Normally Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Infants

Japanese and Canadian Impressions of Vocalising Infants

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