Ethnic Differences in Mother-Infant Language and Gestural Communications Are Associated with Specific Skills in Infants

Autor/inn/en	Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.; Song, Lulu; Leavell, Ashley Smith; Kahana-Kalman, Ronit; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu
Titel	Ethnic Differences in Mother-Infant Language and Gestural Communications Are Associated with Specific Skills in Infants
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 15 (2012) 3, S.384-397 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-755X
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-7687.2012.01136.x
Schlagwörter	Video Technology; Mothers; Infants; Receptive Language; Expressive Language; Language Acquisition; Nonverbal Communication; Ethnicity; Cultural Differences; Parent Child Relationship; Mexican Americans; Latin Americans; African Americans; Toddlers; Interaction; Speech Acts; Vocabulary Development; Imitation; Child Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Rezeptive Kommunikationsfähigkeit; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Ethnizität; Kultureller Unterschied; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Hispanoamerikaner; Latin America; People; Lateinamerika; Bevölkerung; Volk; Afroamerikaner; Infants; Interaktion; Sprechakt; Wortschatzarbeit; Kindesentwicklung
Abstract	We examined gestural and verbal interactions in 226 mother-infant pairs from Mexican, Dominican, and African American backgrounds when infants were 14 months and 2 years of age, and related these interactions to infants' emerging skills. At both ages, dyads were video-recorded as they shared a wordless number book, a wordless emotion book, and beads and string. We coded mothers' and infants' gestures and language/vocalizations. Each maternal utterance was coded as referential (e.g. "That's a bead") or regulatory (e.g. "Put it there"). Mothers reported on infants' gestural, receptive, and productive vocabularies at 14 months, and infants were assessed on receptive language, expressive language, and action sequencing and imitation at 2 years of age. Mothers of the three ethnicities differed in their gesturing, distributions of the two types of language, and coupling of language and gestures. Mothers' ethnicity, language, and gestures were differentially associated with infants' 2-year skills. Mother-infant communicative interactions are foundational to infant learning and development, and ethnic differences in modes of early communication portend divergent pathways in the development of specific skills. (As Provided).
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