The Child's Entry Into a Social World

ability Academic Press according action activity adaptation appear aspects baby becomes Belsky Bruner caretakers changes characteristics Child Development child's attention child's social cognitive communicative competence compliance considerable context conversation course cues Developmental Psychology dialogue direct distal objects Down's Syndrome dyad dyadic early effects emerge encounters environment experience face-to-face feeding fixed action patterns function gesture H. R. Schaffer imitation indicate individual infants influence initially instance integrated interchange interest interpersonal investigators involved joint attention labels language acquisition learning linguistic looking maternal means Messer months mother-child mother-infant motherese mutual gaze nature nonverbal object observed occur onset parent and child participants particular partner patterns peer period person play pointing polyadic preadapted reference relationship responses role sequences situation skills social interaction social partner specific speech Stayton stimulation task temporal topic turn taking University of Strathclyde utterances verbal visual vocal young children