• ABSTRACT Using music as a model, mother/infant vocalisations are examined using
computer-based acoustic analysis. Past research is summarised which demonstrates the …

Using music as a model, mother/infant vocalisations are examined using computer-based
acoustic analysis. Past research is summarised which demonstrates the importance of both …

Fig. 1.2 Photos show the expressions of Laura and her mother in dialogue. The pitch plot is
a compressed version of that shown in Figure 1.1 indicating how the narrative demonstrates …

Mother-Infant communication that satisfies both partners exhibits various musical elements.
In cases where the mother is suffering from postnatal depression, qualities of rhythmic …

Infants, like adults and many animals, move with rhythmic gestures that express motive
states and changes of emotion and mood. But the communications of babies have a special …

Music is at the centre of what it means to be human–it is the sounds of human bodies and
minds moving in creative, story-making ways. We argue that music comes from the way in …

It takes about twelve months before a linguistic consciousness begins to emerge in the
human infant. But this momentous accession to a realm of meaning where sounds and …

In their spontaneous interactions, mothers and infants build repertoires of communicative
motifs based on repetition and variation of expressive units that carry meaning. This shared …

There is growing interest in the study of young children'severyday'lives. Music engagement
is central to young children's experience of theeveryday'yet few studies have investigated …

The infant's environment is filled with musical input. Mothers' speech to infants is music-like,
exhibiting a variety of musical features that reflect its emotional expressiveness. Although …