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Non-segmental features in prelinguistic communications: an analysis of some types of infant cry and non-cry vocalizations*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2008

Laura D'Odorico
Laura D'Odorico
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Università di Padova
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Abstract

Four Italian infants' cry and non-cry vocalizations were recorded during laboratory sessions and grouped into different categories in relation to different situational contexts. Narrow-band spectrograms were taken of all infants' vocalizations in order to determine their non-segmental features. The results give evidence of differentiation of cry vocalization produced in different contexts, and similarity of cry and non-cry vocalization produced in the same context. The problem of assigning communicative intentions to prelinguistic children is discussed in a Piagetian perspective, assuming that infant vocalizations are schemes of interactions with the social world, developing in a similar way to sensorimotor schemes of action.

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Journal of Child Language , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , February 1984 , pp. 17 - 27
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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