The notion of the infant as''tabula rasa''had its popularity in the traditions of social science,
but has long since fallen from favor. We now view infants as socially competent …

The study aimed at providing more precise information about infants' capacity to coordinate
their vocalizations with gaze towards their mothers. A total of 32 infants were observed, four …

The infant-directed speech of Wolof-speaking Senegalese mothers and French-speaking
mothers living in Paris were compared to relate infantdirected communicative acts to the …

We currently understand little about how autonomic arousal influences the early
development of vocal communication. To examine this, we used wearable microphones and …

Studies in the USA rarely find differences in the social-vocal behaviors of male versus
female infants, and when such differences are found, they favor females. The present study …

Research examining mother–infant interactions indicates a close connection between vocal
and gaze behavior. The present longitudinal study examined the development of both …

Before they are able to speak, preverbal infants interact vocally with their parents in so-
called protoconversations, during which they learn to respect a turn-taking pattern. While the …

Coordinated interpersonal tinning exists when the temporal pattern of each partner in a
dialogue is predictable from that of the other. Using a completely automated microanalytic …

Narrative has been a major area of enquiry in many disciplines in the social sciences.
Narrative organization is described in everyday conversation, written text and in various art …

Global tendencies for the relative absence of covocalization (simul-taneous talk) have been
identified in both conversations between adult partners and conversations between mothers …