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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019

Reliability of Listener Judgments of Infant Vocal Imitation.

Helen L Long, D Kimbrough Oller, Dale A Bowman

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Marginal and Canonical Babbling in 10 Infants at Risk for Cerebral Palsy.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2023
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  5. Protophones, the precursors to speech, dominate the human infant vocal landscape.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021
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  6. Vocal imitation between mothers and their children with cochlear implants.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies · 2020
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3 authors.

Helen L LongInfant Vocalizations Laboratory, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, United States.
D Kimbrough OllerInfant Vocalizations Laboratory, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, United States.
Dale A BowmanDepartment of Mathematical Sciences HL, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, United States.

Funding

Infant Vocal Communication: Typical Development and Autism RiskR01DC015108 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS · PI GIPSON, TANJALA TRINETTE, OLLER, D. KIMBROUGH · 2016 to 2020
$2.8M
Vocal exploration and interaction in the emergence of speechR01DC011027 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS · PI OLLER, D. KIMBROUGH · 2011 to 2015
$2.8M
Infant vocalization and the foundations for speechR01DC006099 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS · PI OLLER, D. KIMBROUGH · 2004 to 2008
$2.0M
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC006099NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC011027NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC015108
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There are many theories surrounding infant imitation; however, there is no research to our knowledge evaluating the reliability of listener perception of vocal imitation in prelinguistic infants. This paper evaluates intra- and inter-rater judgments on the degree of "imitativeness" in utterances of infants below 12 months of age. 18 listeners were presented audio segments selected from naturalistic recordings to represent in each case a parent vocal model followed by an infant utterance ranging from low to high degrees of imitativeness. The naturalistic data suggested vocal imitation occurred rarely across the first year, but strong intra- and inter-rater correlations were found for judgments of imitativeness. Our results suggest salience of the infant's vocal imitation despite its rare occurrence as well as active perception by listeners of the imitative signal. We discuss infant vocal imitation as a potential signal of well-being as perceived by caregivers.

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auditory perceptionevolution of languageinfant imitationinfant vocalizationslanguage developmentprelinguistic vocal development

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PMCPMC6579846

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