Infants’ prelinguistic communicative acts and maternal responses: Relations to linguistic development

• Published in: First language Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 72 - 90
• Main Authors: Wu, Zhen, Gros-Louis, Julie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.02.2014
• Subjects: Coding; Infant Behavior; Infants; Language Acquisition; Language Skills; MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory; Measures (Individuals); Mothers; Parent Child Relationship; Scores; Statistical Analysis; United States (Midwest); Verbal Communication; language development; prelinguistic; maternal responses; Communication; MCDI

Infant–parent interactions are bidirectional; therefore, it is important to understand how infants’ communicative behavior elicits variable responses from caregivers and, in turn, how infants’ behavior varies with caregivers’ responses; furthermore, how these moment-to-moment interactive behaviors r...