The Nature of Child-Adult Interaction. From Turn-Taking to Understanding Pointing and Use of Pointing Gestures

Analyses of interactions between an adult and a one-year-old child are often connected with studying early communicative competences, e.g. the child’s participation in turn-taking sequences, in joint attention, and use of pointing gestures. Infants’ communicative behaviors were studied using a struc...

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Main Authors:	Białek Arkadiusz, Białecka-Pikul Marta, Stępień-Nycz Małgorzata
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Sciendo 2014-08-01
Series:	Psychology of Language and Communication
Subjects:	child-adult interaction infancy turn-taking joint attention pointing gestures
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.2478/plc-2014-0008

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spelling	doaj-1281fc82d65b4157b78696fbe14b04e12021-09-05T14:01:04ZengSciendoPsychology of Language and Communication2083-85062014-08-011828710510.2478/plc-2014-0008plc-2014-0008The Nature of Child-Adult Interaction. From Turn-Taking to Understanding Pointing and Use of Pointing GesturesBiałek Arkadiusz0Białecka-Pikul Marta1Stępień-Nycz Małgorzata2Jagiellonian University, KrakowJagiellonian University, KrakowJagiellonian University, KrakowAnalyses of interactions between an adult and a one-year-old child are often connected with studying early communicative competences, e.g. the child’s participation in turn-taking sequences, in joint attention, and use of pointing gestures. Infants’ communicative behaviors were studied using a structured observational measure - the Early Social Communication Scales (Mundy et al., 2003) in a study of 358 12-month-old children. An exploratory factor analysis revealed: (i) a distinction between the categories of initiation and response among the behaviors displayed, (ii) simple and complex behavior categories occurring; (iii) the presence within one factor of behaviors fulfilling various functions (e.g. requesting and sharing interest). An analysis of the results showed that communicative competences can be classified according to their level and ignoring their function, and made it possible to suggest modifications to the way in which behaviors are coded on the ESCS and to complement the procedure of studying early communicative competences.https://doi.org/10.2478/plc-2014-0008child-adult interactioninfancyturn-takingjoint attentionpointing gestures
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title	The Nature of Child-Adult Interaction. From Turn-Taking to Understanding Pointing and Use of Pointing Gestures
title_short	The Nature of Child-Adult Interaction. From Turn-Taking to Understanding Pointing and Use of Pointing Gestures
title_full	The Nature of Child-Adult Interaction. From Turn-Taking to Understanding Pointing and Use of Pointing Gestures
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publisher	Sciendo
series	Psychology of Language and Communication
issn	2083-8506
publishDate	2014-08-01
description	Analyses of interactions between an adult and a one-year-old child are often connected with studying early communicative competences, e.g. the child’s participation in turn-taking sequences, in joint attention, and use of pointing gestures. Infants’ communicative behaviors were studied using a structured observational measure - the Early Social Communication Scales (Mundy et al., 2003) in a study of 358 12-month-old children. An exploratory factor analysis revealed: (i) a distinction between the categories of initiation and response among the behaviors displayed, (ii) simple and complex behavior categories occurring; (iii) the presence within one factor of behaviors fulfilling various functions (e.g. requesting and sharing interest). An analysis of the results showed that communicative competences can be classified according to their level and ignoring their function, and made it possible to suggest modifications to the way in which behaviors are coded on the ESCS and to complement the procedure of studying early communicative competences.
topic	child-adult interaction infancy turn-taking joint attention pointing gestures
url	https://doi.org/10.2478/plc-2014-0008
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The Nature of Child-Adult Interaction. From Turn-Taking to Understanding Pointing and Use of Pointing Gestures

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