Intonation contours as signals in maternal speech to prelinguistic infants.

Stern, Daniel N.; Spieker, Susan J.; MacKain, Kristine

doi:10.1037/0012-1649.18.5.727

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“…Fernald (1993) and Stern et al (1982) have described more positive contours as "sinusoidal," whereas more negative contours have a short, downward shape. The former are used by mothers to convey approval, and the latter disapproval, across cultures (Fernald, 1993).…”

Section: Microanalyses Of Early Face-to-face Interactions and Clinicamentioning

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“…In evaluating the interaction (see Appendix I), I observe whether the mother decreases stimulation when the infant looks away, increases stimulation only once the infant looks back, and uses "greeting" vocal contours (sinusoidal-shaped: see Fernald, 1993;Stern, MacKain, & Spieker, 1982) only while the infant is looking, rather than "calling" an infant who is looking away. I note whether mother attempts to force the infant's return to vis-à-vis by pulling an arm or pushing the head.…”

Section: Microanalyses Of Early Face-to-face Interactions and Clinicamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Brief mother–infant treatment: Psychoanalytically informed video feedback

Beebe

2003

Infant Mental Health Journal

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Specific patterns of interactive regulation documented by microanalytic methods of infant research can be applied to clinical interventions with mothers and infants. A brief treatment model is described that includes face-to-face split-screen videotaping (one camera on each partner) and therapeutic observation of the videotape with the parent. The intervention uses "video feedback" informed by a psychoanalytic approach, including positive reinforcement, modeling, and information giving, as well as interpretation, while watching the videotape. Specific interactions in the areas of attention, arousal, affect, and timing regulation are evaluated. The psychoanalytic intervention links the "story" of the presenting complaints, the "story" seen in the videotape, and the "story" of the parent's own upbringing. An attempt is made to identify specific representations of the baby that may interfere with the parents's ability to observe and process the nonverbal interaction. The mother's powerful experience of watching herself and her baby interact, and our joint attempts to translate the action-sequences into words, facilitates the mother's ability to "see" and to "remember," stimulating a rapid integration of the mother's procedural and declarative modes of information-processing. One treatment case, involving six contacts, is presented to illustrate the approach. By applying the specificity of interactive regulation identified by microanalysis of videotape into the psychodynamic treatment of mother-infant pairs, basic research can be translated into clinical practice.RESUMEN: Patrones específicos de regulación interactiva, documentados por medio de métodos microanalíticos de investigación infantil, pueden aplicarse a intervenciones clínicas con madres e infantes. Se describe un breve modelo de tratamiento, el cual incluye una grabación en vídeo, cara a cara y con la pantalla dividida (sendas cámaras se enfocan en cada uno de los participantes), así como la observación terapéutica del vídeo con la madre. La intervención usa las reacciones al vídeo explicadas por medio de un acercamiento sicoanalítico, incluyendo un reforzamiento positivo, modelos, cómo dar información, así como la interpretación, mientras que se está mirando el vídeo. Se evalúan interacciones específicas en las áreas de atención, despertar, afecto y la regulación del tiempo. La intervención sicoanalítica entrelaza la historia de la presentación de las quejas, la historia vista en el vídeo, y la historia del propio crecimiento de la madre. Se hace un intento por identificar representaciones específicas del bebé que pudieran interferir con la habilidad de la madre de observar y procesar la interacción no verbal. La poderosa experiencia de la madre que se observa a sí misma interactuando con su bebé, y nuestros intentos conjuntos de traducir la secuencia de acciones a palabras, facilita la habilidad de la madre de "ver" y de "recordar," lo cual estimula una rápida integración de las maneras de procesar la información que la madre posee, tanto de p...

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Section: Microanalyses Of Early Face-to-face Interactions and Clinicamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Microanalyses Of Early Face-to-face Interactions and Clinicamentioning

confidence: 99%

Brief mother–infant treatment: Psychoanalytically informed video feedback

Beebe

2003

Infant Mental Health Journal

148

100

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“…The prosodic properties relevant to the process of language acquisition have been found in the interaction between mothers and their infants (Stern et al, 1982;Fernald & Simon, 1984;Grieser & Kuhl, 1988;Fernald & Mazzie, 1991;Papousek, M., & Hwang, S. F. C., 1991;Papousek, M., Papousek, H., & Symmes, D. 1991;Liu, Tsao, & Kuhl, 2007). Fernald and Mazzie (1991) found that when talking to infants, mothers use more exaggerated pitch peaks in certain prosodic positions, and implied that mothers' speech with exaggerated pitch peaks may facilitate the use of prosodic cues for their infants.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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The effect of word length on f0 intervals: Evidence from North Kyungsang children

Kim¹

2015

Phonetics and Speech Sciences

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The present experiment investigated the effect of word length on the length of f0 intervals for North Kyungsang children. In order to find out the lengths of the f0 intervals, the f0 values at the midpoints of vowels in words were measured. F0 estimates were computed as intervals consistent with the logarithmic scale corresponding to the number of syllables in the words. The results indicated that the mean f0 intervals in words of different lengths showed a significant difference for the HH in HH vs. HHL and the LH in LH vs. LLH for North Kyungsang children. Adult speakers from the North Kyungsang region significantly differed only within the HH in HH vs. HHL. Adult speakers made a noticeable contribution in this characteristic from the children. The result of the adult study was presented to confirm whether the children used a North Kyungsang dialect. With respect to individual speaker differences, the North Kyungsang children showed more or less consistent patterns in quantile-quantile plots for the HH vs. HHL, but for the HL vs. LHL and LH vs. LLH, there were more variations than for the HH vs. HHL. The individual speakers' variation was the largest for the HL vs. LHL and the smallest for HH vs. HHL. Considering these results, the effect of word length on f0 intervals tended to show pitch accent-type-specific characteristics in the process of prosodic acquisition.

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“…Infant-directed speech (IDS; e.g., Fernald, 1985;Stern, Spieker, & MacKain, 1982) and infant-directed action (IDA; e.g., Brand, Baldwin, & Ashburn, 2002;Koterba & Iverson, 2009) have recently become a renewed focus as specialized cues that capture infants' attention. ese behaviors, collectively called "ostensive cues, " indicate the overt communicative intention to manifest new and relevant information, according to the theory of "Natural Pedagogy" (Csibra & Gergely, 2006 to which human infants are adapted in order to spontaneously and quickly transfer relevant cultural knowledge through a human social learning system.…”

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Directing and Maintaining Attention in Mother–Infant Interaction on Infants With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder

Shizawa

Sanefuji

Mohri

2013

JSER

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is study investigated how mothers, during face-to-face interaction with their infants, direct their infants' attention. Mothers' behaviors were measured by the frequency and type (e.g., directing vs. maintaining attention) as well as patterns of infant-directed speech (IDS) in two semi-structured conditions (e.g., eating vs. play), comparing the responses of seven infants with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and eight infants with typical development (TD). Results showed that the mothers of infants with ASD showed ostensive cues more frequently, while the mothers of infants with TD maintained attention more frequently. Furthermore, the average tone pitch of mothers' voices giving ostensive cue in both groups was higher in the play condition than that of the eating condition. e average tone pitch of mothers was not di erent between groups. e mothers' behavior may have changed according to the characteristics of their infants and the context in which the interaction occured.

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Intonation contours as signals in maternal speech to prelinguistic infants.

Cited by 247 publications

References 22 publications

Brief mother–infant treatment: Psychoanalytically informed video feedback

Brief mother–infant treatment: Psychoanalytically informed video feedback

The effect of word length on f0 intervals: Evidence from North Kyungsang children

Directing and Maintaining Attention in Mother–Infant Interaction on Infants With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder

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