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Mother-Infant Interaction during the First 3 Months: The Emergence of Culture-Specific Contingency Patterns
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Kartner, Joscha; Keller, Heidi; Yovsi, Relindis D. – Child Development, 2010
This study analyzed German and Nso mothers' auditory, proximal, and visual contingent responses to their infants' nondistress vocalizations in postnatal Weeks 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12. Visual contingency scores increased whereas proximal contingency scores decreased over time for the independent (German urban middle-class, N = 20) but not the…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Interaction
On the Frequency of Use of Tenses in English and German Children's Spontaneous Speech.
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Szagun, Gisela – Child Development, 1978
Samples of spontaneous speech were collected from 20 English and 20 German preschool children and their mothers. The children's frequency of use of various tenses was compared at different age levels within each language, across languages, and with their mothers' frequency of tense usage in speech to the children. (Author/JMB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries