Mothers' use of touch across infants' development and its implications for word learning: Evidence from Korean dyadic interactions

IF 2 2区心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL

Infancy Pub Date : 2023-02-09 DOI:10.1111/infa.12532

Eon-Suk Ko, Rana Abu-Zhaya, Eun-Sol Kim, Taehyeong Kim, Kyung-Woon On, Hyunji Kim, Byoung-Tak Zhang, Amanda Seidl

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Abstract

Caregivers' touches that occur alongside words and utterances could aid in the detection of word/utterance boundaries and the mapping of word forms to word meanings. We examined changes in caregivers' use of touches with their speech directed to infants using a multimodal cross-sectional corpus of 35 Korean mother-child dyads across three age groups of infants (8, 14, and 27 months). We tested the hypothesis that caregivers' frequency and use of touches with speech change with infants' development. Results revealed that the frequency of word/utterance-touch alignment as well as word + touch co-occurrence is highest in speech addressed to the youngest group of infants. Thus, this study provides support for the hypothesis that caregivers' use of touch during dyadic interactions is sensitive to infants' age in a way similar to caregivers' use of speech alone and could provide cues useful to infants' language learning at critical points in early development.

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母亲在婴儿发育过程中使用触摸及其对单词学习的影响:来自韩国二元互动的证据

看护者在单词和话语旁边进行的触摸可以帮助检测单词/话语的边界，并将单词形式映射到单词含义。我们使用一个由三个年龄组（8个月、14个月和27个月）的35对韩国母子组成的多模式横断面语料库，研究了照顾者对婴儿说话时触摸使用的变化。我们检验了这样一个假设，即照顾者的频率和语言接触的使用会随着婴儿的发育而变化。结果显示，在针对最年轻婴儿组的语音中，单词/话语-触摸对齐以及单词+触摸共现的频率最高。因此，这项研究支持了这样一种假设，即照顾者在二元互动中对触摸的使用对婴儿的年龄敏感，类似于照顾者单独使用言语，并可以在早期发展的关键时刻为婴儿的语言学习提供有用的提示。

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Infancy PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL-

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4.00

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7.70%

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期刊介绍： Infancy, the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies, emphasizes the highest quality original research on normal and aberrant infant development during the first two years. Both human and animal research are included. In addition to regular length research articles and brief reports (3000-word maximum), the journal includes solicited target articles along with a series of commentaries; debates, in which different theoretical positions are presented along with a series of commentaries; and thematic collections, a group of three to five reports or summaries of research on the same issue, conducted independently at different laboratories, with invited commentaries.