Social and endogenous infant vocalizations

Long, Helen L.; Bowman, Dale D.; Yoo, Hyunjoo; Burkhardt-Reed, Megan M.; Bene, Edina R.; Oller, D. Kimbrough

Social and endogenous infant vocalizations

dc.contributor.author	Long, Helen L.
dc.contributor.author	Bowman, Dale D.
dc.contributor.author	Yoo, Hyunjoo
dc.contributor.author	Burkhardt-Reed, Megan M.
dc.contributor.author	Bene, Edina R.
dc.contributor.author	Oller, D. Kimbrough
dc.contributor.other	University of Memphis
dc.contributor.other	University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
dc.date.accessioned	2023-09-28T19:30:23Z
dc.date.available	2023-09-28T19:30:23Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.description.abstract	Research on infant vocal development has provided notable insights into vocal interaction with caregivers, elucidating growth in foundations for language through parental elicitation and reaction to vocalizations. A role for infant vocalizations produced endogenously, potentially providing raw material for interaction and a basis for growth in the vocal capacity itself, has received less attention. We report that in laboratory recordings of infants and their parents, the bulk of infant speech-like vocalizations, or "protophones", were directed toward no one and instead appeared to be generated endogenously, mostly in exploration of vocal abilities. The tendency to predominantly produce protophones without directing them to others occurred both during periods when parents were instructed to interact with their infantsandduring periods when parents were occupied with an interviewer, with the infants in the room. The results emphasize the infant as an agent in vocal learning, even when not interacting socially and suggest an enhanced perspective on foundations for vocal language.	en_US
dc.format.medium	electronic
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.citation	Long, H. L., Bowman, D. D., Yoo, H., Burkhardt-Reed, M. M., Bene, E. R., & Oller, D. K. (2020). Social and endogenous infant vocalizations. In I. Nomikou (Ed.), PLOS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 8, p. e0224956). Public Library of Science (PLoS). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224956
dc.identifier.doi	10.1371/journal.pone.0224956
dc.identifier.orcid	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6406-1222
dc.identifier.uri	https://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/11340
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	PLOS
dc.rights.license	Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	PARENTAL INTERACTION
dc.subject	VOCAL DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject	EVOLUTION
dc.subject	ATTACHMENT
dc.subject	LANGUAGE
dc.subject	COORDINATION
dc.subject	FEEDBACK
dc.subject	SPEECH
dc.subject	LEARN
dc.subject	TOOLS
dc.subject	Multidisciplinary Sciences
dc.title	Social and endogenous infant vocalizations	en_US
dc.type	Article
dc.type	text