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Ko ES, Seidl A, Cristia A, et al. Entrainment of prosody in the interaction of mothers with their young children. J Child Lang. 2015;43(2):284-309doi: 10.1017/S0305000915000203.
Ko, E. S., Seidl, A., Cristia, A., Reimchen, M., & Soderstrom, M. (2016). Entrainment of prosody in the interaction of mothers with their young children. Journal of child language, 43(2), 284-309. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000915000203
Ko, Eon-Suk, et al. "Entrainment of prosody in the interaction of mothers with their young children." Journal of child language vol. 43,2 (2016): 284-309. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000915000203
Ko ES, Seidl A, Cristia A, Reimchen M, Soderstrom M. Entrainment of prosody in the interaction of mothers with their young children. J Child Lang. 2016 Mar;43(2):284-309. doi: 10.1017/S0305000915000203. Epub 2015 Jun 03. PMID: 26036694.
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J Child Lang. 2016 Mar;43(2):284-309. doi: 10.1017/S0305000915000203. Epub 2015 Jun 03.

Entrainment of prosody in the interaction of mothers with their young children.

Journal of child language

Eon-Suk Ko, Amanda Seidl, Alejandrina Cristia, Melissa Reimchen, Melanie Soderstrom

Affiliations

  1. Seoul National University.
  2. Purdue University.
  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
  4. University of Manitoba.

PMID: 26036694 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000915000203

Abstract

Caregiver speech is not a static collection of utterances, but occurs in conversational exchanges, in which caregiver and child dynamically influence each other's speech. We investigate (a) whether children and caregivers modulate the prosody of their speech as a function of their interlocutor's speech, and (b) the influence of the initiator of the conversation on durational characteristics of the exchange. We analyzed naturalistic conversations from 13 mother-infant/toddler dyads aged 12-30 months across full-day recordings of 3-5 days per dyad using LENA and automated analytic tools. We found small, but significant, effects of mothers and their children influencing each other's speech, particularly in pitch measures. We also found longer utterances and shorter response latencies for the initiator of a conversation. While mothers show more mature conversational capabilities (more entrainment, shorter response latencies), our findings converge with prior research to highlight the active role of young children in the conversational exchange.

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