Rome-Flanders T, Cronk C
Centre de Recherche, Hôpital Marie Enfant, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
J Child Lang. 1995 Jun;22(2):259-74. doi: 10.1017/s0305000900009788.
This study explored the development of verbal behaviours of infants during two mother-infant games. Twenty-five infants were videotaped as they played peek-a-boo and ball with their mothers at 0;6, 0;9, 1;0, 1;3, 1;6, and 2;0. The frequencies of eight categories of vocal/verbal behaviours were analysed as they evolved over time in both games. Despite differences in the structure and level of difficulty of peek-a-boo and ball, the development of these behaviours proved to be similar in the two games. One category, PRIMITIVE VOCALIZATIONS, which did not change in frequency over time, was seen to have a pragmatic rather than a linguistic function. Another category, PRELEXICAL COMMENT, demonstrated an early capacity for conveying topic and comment together in the form of speech sounds combined with an attention-getting gesture well before the emergence of multiple-word utterances. The vocal behaviours produced during games were compared with the results of language tests administered during the experimental sessions. Strong correlations were found between the results of these two measures of language. The predictive nature of vocal behaviours during games is discussed.
本研究探讨了婴儿在两种母婴游戏中言语行为的发展情况。25名婴儿在0;6、0;9、1;0、1;3、1;6和2;0岁时与母亲玩躲猫猫和球的游戏时被录像。分析了这两种游戏中随着时间推移八类发声/言语行为的频率。尽管躲猫猫和球游戏在结构和难度水平上存在差异，但这些行为在两种游戏中的发展情况被证明是相似的。有一类行为，即原始发声，其频率随时间没有变化，被认为具有语用而非语言功能。另一类行为，即前词汇评论，显示出在多词话语出现之前很久，就有以语音形式结合吸引注意力的手势来共同传达主题和评论的早期能力。将游戏中产生的发声行为与实验环节中进行的语言测试结果进行了比较。发现这两种语言测量结果之间存在很强的相关性。文中还讨论了游戏中发声行为的预测性质。
