Author:
MEADOWS DENIS,ELIAS GORDON,BAIN JOHN
Abstract
A mother's ability to identify consistently what she perceives to be
communicatively salient behaviours is considered to be fundamental to
the process of responding sensitively to prelinguistic infants. The
present study investigated the ability of 35 mothers to identify consistently
what they perceived to be communicative acts by infants at
three ages (0;6, 0;9, and 1;0). Each mother coded the same videotape
of her infant's behaviour on two occasions, three months apart, and
observed measures of agreement (consistency) between coded records
were obtained. A randomization procedure was used to provide distributions
of chance levels of agreement between coded records with
which observed measures were compared. Comparisons of the mothers'
coded records indicated that they were able to identify infants' communicative
acts consistently at each age.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Subject
General Psychology,Linguistics and Language,Developmental and Educational Psychology,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology,Language and Linguistics
Cited by
8 articles.
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