The Acquisition of Communicative Intentions in Infants Eight to Fifteen Months of Age

Carpenter, Robert L.; Mastergeorge, Ann M.; Coggins, Truman E.

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“…She found that, in many cases, calling and requesting were differentiable on the basis of nonsegmental vocal patterns. Carpenter, Mastergeorge & Coggins (1983) found that by o;io, infants' vocal patterns reliably correlate with the pragmatic functions of requesting and protesting. While we did not systematically manipulate social situations, Jenny was recorded in a variety of interactive modes, and we were rarely able to hear any affect in her vocalizations.…”

Section: Pragmatic Use Of the Voicementioning

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Linguistic significance of babbling: evidence from a tracheostomized infant

Locke

Pearson

1990

J. Child Lang.

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The role of babbling in language development is not well understood. One source of evidence is the utterances of infants who were tracheostomized during the period in which they would normally have produced syllabic vocalization. We describe here the phonetic patterns and linguistic development of a girl called Jenny. She was tracheostomized and generally aphonic from o;5-1 ;8 but cognitively and socially normal, with near-normal comprehension of language. Acoustic analyses of Jenny's utterances following decannulation revealed a tenth of the canonical syllables which might be expected in normally developing infants, an extremely small inventory of consonant-like segments, and a marked preference for labial obstruents. In these ways, she resembled a group of infants of the same age who also cannot hear their oral-motor movements, the congenitally deaf, suggesting that the audibility of babbling contributes to its onset. Two months following decannulation, when Jenny was I ; I O , she produced only a handful of different words. We think this is because aphonia prevented her from discovering the referential value of vocal expression and discouraged the formation of a phonetic repertoire that could be appropriated for lexical [•] The authors are grateful to Jenny and her parents for their co-operation. We also wish to acknowledge the assistance of Jenny's physician, Joseph Hallett, and her speech-language pathologist, Susan Thompson. Members of our own research team, including Sarah Hamlin and especially Jeni Yamada, assisted in observing, testing, and recording; Corine Bickley helped with the acoustic analysis. We are indebted to Oiler and Eilers (1988) for permission to adapt their Fig. 2, and to Bruce Smith for editorial comments.

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Section: Pragmatic Use Of the Voicementioning

confidence: 93%

Linguistic significance of babbling: evidence from a tracheostomized infant

Locke

Pearson

1990

J. Child Lang.

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“…An intentional communicative act is defined as a gesture, vocalization or word that is directed at someone to convey a message (Cress et al 2013). These behaviours develop long before meaningful speech (Carpenter et al 1983), and they do so in a particular order in typically developing children: (i) protesting, (ii) request for action, (iii) request for object, (iv) comment on action, (v) comment on object and (vi) answering (Carpenter et al 1983). Children with developmental disabilities may not follow the same progression as typically developing children when learning these actions (Rescorla & Merrin 1998).…”

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Quantitative Measurement of Communication Ability in Children with Angelman Syndrome

Grieco

Bahr

Schoenberg

et al. 2016

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Background Angelman syndrome is a rare disorder in which most individuals do not develop speech. Testing of communication ability using traditional neuropsychological measures reveals a performance level at or near the floor of the instrument resulting in an inability to detect change when experimental therapeutics are applied. Methods Nine individuals, with molecularly confirmed AS, ranging in age from 34 to 126 months, and a single healthy control child (age 16 months) were audio and video-recorded while interacting with a licensed speechlanguage pathologist in an attempt to elicit vocalization and non-verbal communication. Thirty-minute audio recordings were transcribed and categorized per the Stark Assessment of Early Vocal Development-Revised and a phonetic inventory was created. Using video recordings, gestures were classified by function, either behavioral regulation or social interaction and further categorized as deictic or representational (i.e., behavioral regulation) and joint attention or shared engagement (i.e., social interaction). ResultsThe range of vocalizations produced by the children with AS was characteristic of children between 0-6 months and none of the children with AS used advanced forms of vocalizations. The mean frequency of reflexive vocalizations, control of phonation and expansion far exceeded the number of uses of canonical syllables, consistant with the characteristics of children around 12 months of age. Most vocalizations were either laughter or isolated vowels, only three children with AS produced consonant-vowel combinations. Children with AS tended to use central and low vowels with few producing high vowels, suggesting the presence of childhood apraxia of speech. Conclusion Our results show the utilization of videorecorded behavioral observations provides a feasible and reliable alternative for quantification of communication ability in this patient population and may be employed during future clinical studies of potential therapeutics.

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“…As McNeill (1992) noted, in human languages gesture and speech modalities are coordinated not only at the temporal and phonological levels (i.e., the most prominent part of the gesture is typically aligned with the most prominent part of speech), but also at the semantic and pragmatic levels (i.e., the two components can share similar semantic functions). Infants begin to use simultaneous gesture-speech combinations intentionally near the end of the first year of life, a few months after the onset of canonical babbling and typically preceding the beginning of the one-word production stage (Butcher & Goldin-Meadow, 2000;Carpenter, Mastergeorge & Coggins, 1983;Esteve-Gibert & Prieto, 2014). The presence of these combined, multimodal communicative behaviors have been taken as an indicator of intentional communication, representing a step further on the way toward linguistic communication (Bates, Camaioni, & Volterra, 1975;Bates, Benigni, Bretherton, Camaioni, & Volterra, 1979;Wetherby & Prizant, 1989).…”

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Language development at 18 months is related to multimodal communicative strategies at 12 months

Igualada

Bosch

Prieto

2015

Infant Behavior and Development

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The present study investigated the degree to which an infants' use of simultaneous gesture-speech combinations during controlled social interactions predicts later language development. Nineteen infants participated in a declarative pointing task involving three different social conditions: two experimental conditions (a) available, when the adult was visually attending to the infant but did not attend to the object of reference jointly with the child, and (b) unavailable, when the adult was not visually attending to neither the infant nor the object; and (c) a baseline condition, when the adult jointly engaged with the infant's object of reference. At 12 months of age measures related to infants' speech-only productions, pointing-only gestures, and simultaneous pointing-speech combinations were obtained in each of the three social conditions. Each child's lexical and grammatical output was assessed at 18 months of age through parental report. Results revealed a significant interaction between social condition and type of communicative production. Specifically, only simultaneous pointing-speech combinations increased in frequency during the available condition compared to baseline, while no differences were found for speech-only and pointing-only productions. Moreover, simultaneous pointing-speech combinations in the available condition at 12 months positively correlated with lexical and grammatical development at 18 months of age. The ability to selectively use this multimodal communicative strategy to engage the adult in joint attention by drawing his attention toward an unseen event or object reveals 12-month-olds' clear understanding of referential cues that are relevant for language development. This strategy to successfully initiate and maintain joint attention is related to language development as it increases learning opportunities from social interactions.

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The Acquisition of Communicative Intentions in Infants Eight to Fifteen Months of Age

Cited by 93 publications

References 7 publications

Linguistic significance of babbling: evidence from a tracheostomized infant

Linguistic significance of babbling: evidence from a tracheostomized infant

Quantitative Measurement of Communication Ability in Children with Angelman Syndrome

Language development at 18 months is related to multimodal communicative strategies at 12 months

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