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Talking with Feeling: Integrating Affective and Linguistic Expression in Early Language Development
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Talking with Feeling: Integrating Affective and Linguistic Expression in Early Language Development ...
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Abstract:
The purpose of the longitudinal study reported here was to determine the developmental relation between the two systems of expression available to the young child in the period of early language learning: affect and speech. Two achievements in language were identified for a group of 12 infants: First Words, at the beginning of the single-word period (mean age about 13 months), and a Vocabulary Spurt toward the end of the period (mean age about 19 months). Affect expression was coded continuously in the stream of the infants' activity as they and their mothers played with groups of toys and ate a snack. The occurrence of words was examined in relation to the expression of affect and the results of this study concern developments in the integration of these two forms expression. The children's words occurred closely in time with their expression of emotionally toned affect. We concluded, then, that they were learning words to express what their feelings were about even though none of the actual words they said ...
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Developmental psychology; Expression--Psychological aspects; Infants; Language acquisition
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URL: https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D87S7P76 https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d87s7p76
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