Intersubjectivity and the Emergence of Words

Terrace, H. S.; Bigelow, Ann E.; Beebe, Beatrice

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.693139

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“…High levels of temperamental surgency tended to enhance the positive associations between emotional communication patterns with mothers and fathers and pointing, while high levels of negative affectivity tended to dampen the associations between communication patterns with strangers and pointing. Findings suggest the existence of developmental associations from early dyadic communication to later triadic referential communication (Adamson & Bakeman, 1985;Hobson, 2002;Legerstee et al, 2007;Striano & Rochat, 1999;Terrace et al, 2022), and highlight the central role of temperamental reactivity in shaping individual differences in preverbal communication behaviors (Aktar & Pérez-Edgar, 2020;Kagan et al, 1998).…”

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confidence: 92%

Predicting Pointing from Early Emotional Communication with Mothers, Fathers, and Strangers through the Lens of Temperament

Salvadori¹,

Colonnesi²,

Oort³

et al. 2023

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Emotional and referential communication are primary expressions of social engagement in infancy and beyond. Although early patterns of dyadic emotional communication may form a foundation for triadic referential communication and gesture production, the role of temperament in moderating their association has not been examined. We investigated whether early dyadic patterns of emotional communication, as well as infant temperamental surgency and negative affectivity, were associated with later pointing production. Participants were 51 infants (45% girls) and both their parents (86.5% Dutch). Infant emotional communication (production of smile, vocalizations, and gaze) was observed during separate home-based face-to-face interactions with mothers, fathers, and strangers at 4 and 8 months. At both ages, mothers and fathers reported on infant temperament, and overall means were calculated. Referential communication (declarative pointing) was measured during structured lab-based observations at 12 and 15 months. Emotional and referential communication behaviors were microanalytically coded second by second. Poisson multilevel regression analyses indicated interaction effects between temperament and early visual, facial, and vocal communication with each partner in predicting pointing. Specifically, high levels of infant temperamental surgency tended to enhance positive associations between dyadic communication patterns with mothers and fathers and pointing, while high levels of negative affectivity tended to dampen associations between communication patterns with stranger and pointing. Results highlight the importance of infant early interaction with diverse social partners and the moderating role of temperament in predicting referential communication.

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confidence: 92%

Predicting Pointing from Early Emotional Communication with Mothers, Fathers, and Strangers through the Lens of Temperament

Salvadori¹,

Colonnesi²,

Oort³

et al. 2023

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“…Importantly, a child's early language experiences predict school-age language and developmental outcomes years later ( 22 ). Participation in early social interactions is crucial to stimulate language, and scholars suggest that primary and secondary intersubjectivity are precursors to the emergence of verbal communication ( 23 ). Primary intersubjectivity refers to mutual emotional and attentional coordination between infant and mother during face-to-face exchanges, a dyadic experience that begins in the child's first days of life.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Parents could not be able to interpret infants’ cues and communications because of the partial or reduced signals like facial expressions, pointing, reaching, showing objects, and so on, which in turn could make it difficult for parents to understand their infant's intention ( 4 , 5 , 34 ). Primary intersubjectivity allows the infant to organize contingent exchanges with the parent, specifically in terms of protoconversion, which includes a variety of communication forms ( 23 ). Consequently, altered prelinguistic intersubjective skills, such as deficits in vocalizations, eye contact, smiling, and sharing attention, may interfere with the quality of daily dyadic exchanges, which in turn may negatively affect parenting with a long-term negative impact on cognitive and language development ( 35 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Prelinguistic intersubjective and socio-communicative skills in infants with neurodevelopmental disabilities aged 0–36 months: A new assessment and parent support tool

Strazzer

Sacchi²,

Rigamonti³

et al. 2023

Front. Rehabil. Sci.

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BackgroundAlthough children with neurodevelopmental disability (NDD) present with several deficits, they partially share developmental impairments in prelinguistic intersubjective and socio-communicative skills, which are not easily assessed by conventional tests during the first years of life.AimThe current paper presents a new procedure to assess the prelinguistic intersubjective and socio-communicative skills of NDD children aged 0–36 months. A specific observation form template, called the Observation of Prelinguistic Intersubjective and Socio-Communicative Skills (OPISCoS) form, has been designed to systematically detect infant skills during daily routines (e.g., mealtime, playtime, desk activities). The OPISCoS form helps speech therapists to provide parents support to better perceive and understand early communicative signals from their children, avoiding the risk of excessive or reduced social stimulation.MethodsThe OPISCoS form is composed of three sections, namely, “Pragmatics and Communication,” “Decoding,” and “Expression,” which are useful to delineate the communication abilities of children with NDD and are not tapped by traditional batteries. Vignettes from clinical practice illustrate and provide exemplifications for using the OPISCoS form with NDD infants and their parents.ResultsThe OPISCoS form was reported for two children and showed potential in detecting disrupted communicative behaviors and planning specific early interventions. Further, we observed an improvement not only in children's communicative abilities improve but also in their interactions with parents. From a clinical point of view, the OPISCoS form (1) offers an observational perspective of prelinguistic intersubjective and socio-communicative skills in infants with NDD and (2) may be useful to practitioners to enhance parents’ sensitivity to their infants’ communicative behavior.ConclusionThe OPISCoS form was developed in clinical practice and is based on a very preliminary description of a new observational procedure as integration for the assessment of NDD children. The OPISCoS form appears to be a useful tool for the clinical assessment of prelinguistic intersubjective and socio-communicative skills in NDD infants as well as for promoting the quality of early parenting.

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“…Several researchers have shown the appearance of the “social” smile between 8 and 12 weeks and further noted that children become more intentionally communicative in this period. Children look at the mother and smile, and these behaviors tend to coexist when the mother offers objects to the children [ 19 ]. Previously, in object play, the mother was the one attuned to the child’s emotional experience; however, between 9 and 12 months, the frequency of instances where the child initiates affective attunement increased.…”

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confidence: 99%

A Preliminary Longitudinal Study on Infant-Directed Speech (IDS) Components in the First Year of Life

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Infant-directed speech (IDS) is an essential factor of mother–infant interaction and facilitates early language processing and word learning during dyadic interactions. This study aimed to longitudinally investigate emotional and prosodic components of IDS in the first year of life by analyzing children’s responses to the different prosodic trends that mothers use during the observation of mother–child interactions. Seventeen mothers and infants were recruited for this study during their first hospitalization. The study involved observing communication changes in face-to-face interactions between the mother and child at three, six, and nine months after the child’s birth. We analyzed the relationship between gaze direction, smiling, speech speed, and clarity. The results showed that the IDS differs in production when compared to the age of the child; at only nine months, there is high intensity. The same is evident from the results related to the elocution velocity. The verbal sensitivity of the mother and the ability to tune in to the affective states of the child, especially at nine months, can predict the child’s understanding of future language.

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Intersubjectivity and the Emergence of Words

Cited by 15 publications

References 151 publications

Predicting Pointing from Early Emotional Communication with Mothers, Fathers, and Strangers through the Lens of Temperament

Predicting Pointing from Early Emotional Communication with Mothers, Fathers, and Strangers through the Lens of Temperament

Prelinguistic intersubjective and socio-communicative skills in infants with neurodevelopmental disabilities aged 0–36 months: A new assessment and parent support tool

A Preliminary Longitudinal Study on Infant-Directed Speech (IDS) Components in the First Year of Life

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