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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

To accomplish a smooth transition in conversation from one speaker to the next, a tight
coordination of interaction between speakers is required. Recent studies of adult …

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 …

Changes in the organization of infant looking, facial expressions, and vocalizations were
examined over age (4, 7, and 10 months) and with different social partners. Although infants …

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 …

Although the latin root of their age category, infans, defines young humans as incapable of
speech, infants respond as communicative partners in the earliest social interactions. The …

Human infants engage in vocal communion with their mother and other prospective
caregivers as soon as it becomes possible to do so. As the term is used here,'communion' …