Infants interact vocally with their parents long before they can speak. Parents and infants
coordinate their vocal emissions in a turn-taking pattern, a pattern found in conversations …

This study examined the characteristics of the vocal behaviors of parents and preterm
infants, as compared to their term-born peers, at three months of age. Potential links …

We studied the timing of the spontaneous vocalization that occurs in dyadic interactions of
fathers and their neonates. We recorded 21 fathers speaking to their 2 to 4‐day‐old …

Human newborns are cognitively and socially competent. Although they are sensitive to the
presence of a social partner, little is known on the emergence of the ability to partake in …

We compared dyad-focused maternal speech (protoconversations and maternal speech
describing the dyad) in interactions of mothers with their twin and singleton infants. Nine …

Aims The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that mothers of premature
infants compared with mothers of term infants differ in the structure which they impose on the …

Mother-infant vocal interactions serve multiple functions in child development, but it remains
unclear whether key features of these interactions are community-common or community …

This is a longitudinal study of development in coordinated mother–infant vocal interaction
from 4 to 10 months (N= 41) focusing on the development of turn-taking patterns and time …

Caregiver speech is not a static collection of utterances, but occurs in conversational
exchanges, in which caregiver and child dynamically influence each other's speech. We …

Infants are known to engage in conversation-like exchanges from the end of the second
month after birth. These 'protoconversations' involve both turn-taking and overlapping …