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Article published In: Vocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots
Edited by Mohamed Chetouani, Elodie F. Briefer, Angela Dassow, Ricard Marxer, Roger K. Moore, Nicolas Obin and Dan Stowell
[Interaction Studies 24:1] 2023
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Toward a multimodal and continuous approach of infant-adult interactions

ORCiD logo with link | Aix Marseille Université
 | Université Paris Nanterre
Published online: 28 August 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/is.22041.jov
Abstract
Adult-infant early dyadic interactions have been extensively explored by developmental psychologists. Around the age of 2 months, infants already demonstrate complex, delicate and very sensitive behaviors that seem to express their ability to interact and share emotions with their caregivers. This paper presents 3 pilot studies of parent-infant dyadic interaction in various set-ups. The first two present longitudinal data collected on two infants aged between 1 and 6 months and their mothers. We analyzed the development of coordination between them, at the motor and at the vocal level. The 3rd pilot study aims to explore interpersonal coordination in both vocal behavior and motor activity for one infant and his mother at 2, 4 and 6 months. These pilot studies however leave a number of questions open concerning developmental changes and infants’ progressive mastery of interaction. We identify areas worth examining and try to tease out specific issues that may help develop new methodological pathways for the study of early naturalistic social interaction. We assume that a continuous, rather than discrete, approach would better capture the changes taking place in the various communicative modalities, while also displaying each dyad’s specificity and the narrative dimension of social engagement between infants and caregivers.
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Part 1.A brief history of research on interaction dynamics
  • Part 2.Exploring a multimodal and continuous approach through three pilot case studies
    • Pilot 1.Longitudinal analysis of interpersonal motor coordination from 1 to 6 months
      • Background
      • Methodology
      • Results
      • Discussion
    • Pilot 2.Longitudinal analysis of vocal turn-taking between 1 and 5 months
      • Background
      • Methodology
        • Coding of vocalizations/utterances
        • Coding of turn-taking sequences
        • Identification of overlap
      • Results
        • Descriptive aggregate statistics
        • Quantifying the sequential organization of adult and infant vocalization
      • Discussion
    • Pilot 3.Longitudinal analysis of vocal and motor coordination from 2 to 6 months
      • Background
      • Methodology
      • Results
      • Discussion
    • Part 5.Insights and blind spots
      • 1.Specificity of the dyad
      • 2.Handling multimodality
        • Multimodal recording and analysis: The search for a common variable
      • 3.Temporal dimension and units in early interactions
        • Event-based or continuous process? On the question of behavior discretization
        • How do seemingly discrete elements become organized into sequences?
        • Capturing the flow of time: The narrative dimension of social engagement
        • Exploring the temporal dimension of early interaction through signal analysis and statistics
    • Part 6.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
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