In:
Journal of Child Language, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 27, No. 2 ( 2000-06), p. 393-406
Abstract:
A mother's ability to identify consistently what she perceives to be
communicatively salient behaviours is considered to be fundamental to the process of responding sensitively to prelinguistic infants. The
present study investigated the ability of 35 mothers to identify consistently what they perceived to be communicative acts by infants at
three ages (0;6, 0;9, and 1;0). Each mother coded the same videotape of her infant's behaviour on two occasions, three months apart, and
observed measures of agreement (consistency) between coded records were obtained. A randomization procedure was used to provide distributions
of chance levels of agreement between coded records with which observed measures were compared. Comparisons of the mothers'
coded records indicated that they were able to identify infants' communicative acts consistently at each age.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0305-0009
,
1469-7602
DOI:
10.1017/S0305000900004177
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
2000
detail.hit.zdb_id:
1466489-6
SSG:
5,2
SSG:
7,11
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