Mother-Infant Interaction as an Original Point in Music Education--Spectographic Studies on the Pleasure Sign of Two-Month-Old Infants.

Autor/in	Shimura, Yoko
Titel	Mother-Infant Interaction as an Original Point in Music Education--Spectographic Studies on the Pleasure Sign of Two-Month-Old Infants.
Quelle	(1987), (20 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Auditory Stimuli; Communication Research; Foreign Countries; Individual Differences; Infants; Melody; Mothers; Music Education; Nonverbal Communication; Parent Child Relationship; Singing; Japan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Auditive Stimulation; Kommunikationsforschung; Ausland; Individueller Unterschied; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Mother; Mutter; Musikerziehung; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Gesang
Abstract	Eight 2-month-old Japanese infants and their 25- to 30-year-old mothers participated in an investigation of the characteristics of pleasure vocalization, correlations in pitch and duration between motherese and pleasure vocalizations, and similarities in the melody types of motherese and pleasure vocalizations. Motherese, infant vocalizations occurring in response to it, and the mothers' responses to infants' vocalizations were analyzed by sound spectrograph. Sound spectrograms of the vocal sounds of the infants and the mothers were classified according to the scheme used by Wasz-Hockert and others (1968). Findings indicated that, as a general tendency, pitch agreement was seen in each mother-infant pair. Mothers replied to the high-pitched voices of their infants in a higher pitch than usual, as if they were influenced by the vocalization pitch of the infants. No individual differences were observed in the duration of infants' vocalizations. There was a marked individual difference in the duration of phrases uttered by mothers. No large difference was observed in infants' vocalization latency after mothers' speech. Latency of mothers' response to their infants' vocalization differed greatly. Rising-falling and flat patterns were dominant melody types of infants' pleasure vocalizations. The melody type of motherese differed by individual, with the rising type of melody predominating. (RH)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC