Imitation of Non-Speech Oral Gestures by 8-Month-Old Infants.
This study investigates the oral gestures of 8-month-old infants in response to audiovisual presentation of lip and tongue smacks. Infants exhibited more lip gestures than tongue gestures following adult lip smacks and more tongue gestures than lip gestures following adult tongue smacks. The findings, which are consistent with predictions from Articulatory Phonology, imply that 8-month-old infants are capable of producing goal-directed oral gestures by matching the articulatory organ of an adult model.
Department of Speech and Language Pathology, University of Toronto, Canada.
Heidi
H
Diepstra
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada.
Sandra E
SE
Trehub
Department of Speech and Language Pathology, University of Toronto, Canada.
Alice
A
Eriks-Brophy
Department of Speech and Language Pathology, University of Toronto, Canada.
Pascal Hhm
PH
van Lieshout
D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000328:Adult; D002663:Child Language; D005260:Female; D005868:Gestures; D006801:Humans; D007100:Imitative Behavior; D007223:Infant; D018730:Infant Behavior; D008046:Lip / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D014059:Tongue / Q000502:physiology*; D014061:Tongue Habits
Infants; babbling; imitation; oral gestures; phonology