Prelinguistic gesture use in mother-infant and mother-infant-sibling interactions
Takeshi Kishimoto | University of the Sacred Heart
I tested the hypothesis that, in infant-mother-sibling interactions, infants with older siblings aged 11 to 24
months produce deictic gestures when they are proximal to, or engaging in joint attention with, their mothers more frequently than same-aged
infants without siblings. Fifteen infant-mother dyads and 10 infant-mother-sibling triads were individually observed for 15 minutes in a
playroom full of toys. Infants involved in infant-mother-sibling interactions produced more deictic gestures when they were proximal to
their mothers than infants in infant-mother interactions. Further, infants involved in infant-mother-sibling interactions accompanied their
gestures with vocalizations at a higher rate than infants in infant-mother interactions. This result suggests that infants with older
siblings monitor their mothers more carefully in interactions in which their sibling is also present, and that they produce deictic gestures
in order to effectively elicit joint action with their mothers.
Keywords: infants, deictic gestures, siblings, mother-infant-sibling triads, joint attention, physical proximity
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Methods
- 2.1Participants
- 2.2Apparatus and data collection
- 2.3Data coding
- 2.4Data analysis
- 3.Results
- 3.1Frequency of deictic gestures produced by infants
- 3.2Deictic gestures with vocalization
- 3.3Proximity to mother and joint attention
- 3.4Proximity, joint attention, and the frequency of deictic gestures
- 3.5Observed/expected frequency ratios of deictic gestures for infants with and without older siblings
- 3.6Observed/expected frequency ratios of deictic gestures accompanied by vocalization for infants with and without older siblings
- 3.7The effect of proximity and joint attention on observed/expected frequency ratios
- 3.8Additional analyses on infants with older siblings
- 4.Discussion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
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Published online: 10 August 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/is.18.1.04kis
https://doi.org/10.1075/is.18.1.04kis
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