Rhythmic ostensive gestures: How adults facilitate infants´ entrance into early triadic interactions

For decades, the literature on the emergence of triadic interactions considers the end of the first year of life as the time when children become able to communicate with others intentionally about a referent. Prior to that, children only relate in dyads, either with someone else or with an object....

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Autores: Moreno Núñez, Ana Rocío, Rodríguez Garrido, María Cintia, Olmo Barros, María Jesús del
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Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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Palavra-chave:Early triadic interactions
Ostensive gestures
Rhythm, Joint actions
Self-directed gestures
Psicología
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spelling Rhythmic ostensive gestures: How adults facilitate infants´ entrance into early triadic interactionsMoreno Núñez, Ana RocíoRodríguez Garrido, María CintiaOlmo Barros, María Jesús delEarly triadic interactionsOstensive gesturesRhythm, Joint actionsSelf-directed gesturesPsicologíaFor decades, the literature on the emergence of triadic interactions considers the end of the first year of life as the time when children become able to communicate with others intentionally about a referent. Prior to that, children only relate in dyads, either with someone else or with an object. However, several researchers claim that referents are not naturally given in human communication and that they need to be established in interaction with others. In this study, we focus on earlier triadic interactions initiated by adults, when young babies still require an adult to bring the material world within their reach. In these early triadic interactions, ostensive gestures (with the object in the hand) are one of the first means of enabling the establishment of shared reference. Such gestures are easier to understand since sign (gesture) and referent (object) coincide. We conducted a longitudinal study with 6 babies filmed at 2, 3 and 4 months old in interaction with their mothers and a sounding object (a maraca). We analyzed different communicative initiatives by the adult and the child’s responses. The results show that children come to understand the adult’s communicative intention gradually through interaction. Adults include children in organized communicative “niches” based on ostensive actions, both through ostensive gestures and demonstrations of the use of the object. Consequently, the first shared understandings between adult and child take place around the object and its uses. Rhythm is a powerful tool used to structure the interaction. Eventually, adults provide space to children to actively interact with the sounding object themselves. These results highlight the importance of considering ostensive actions as a communicative tool that favors joint attention and action. They also bring some light to the interdependence between a child who actively perceives and acts, and the structured situation that the adult organizes for themThis study was supported by the program for the Training of University Teachers (Formación de Profesorado Universitario - FPU) of the Spanish Ministry of Education granted to the first author [reference AP2009-4064]; and the R&D National Plan of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [grant number EDU2011-27840]ElsevierDepartamento de Psicología Evolutiva y de la EducaciónFacultad de Psicología20172017-01-01research articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1AMhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_ab4af688f83e57aainfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10486/705068https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2017.09.003reponame:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAMinstname:Universidad Autónoma de MadridInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/7050682026-06-23T12:46:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Rhythmic ostensive gestures: How adults facilitate infants´ entrance into early triadic interactions
title Rhythmic ostensive gestures: How adults facilitate infants´ entrance into early triadic interactions
spellingShingle Rhythmic ostensive gestures: How adults facilitate infants´ entrance into early triadic interactions
Moreno Núñez, Ana Rocío
Early triadic interactions
Ostensive gestures
Rhythm, Joint actions
Self-directed gestures
Psicología
title_short Rhythmic ostensive gestures: How adults facilitate infants´ entrance into early triadic interactions
title_full Rhythmic ostensive gestures: How adults facilitate infants´ entrance into early triadic interactions
title_fullStr Rhythmic ostensive gestures: How adults facilitate infants´ entrance into early triadic interactions
title_full_unstemmed Rhythmic ostensive gestures: How adults facilitate infants´ entrance into early triadic interactions
title_sort Rhythmic ostensive gestures: How adults facilitate infants´ entrance into early triadic interactions
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Moreno Núñez, Ana Rocío
Rodríguez Garrido, María Cintia
Olmo Barros, María Jesús del
author Moreno Núñez, Ana Rocío
author_facet Moreno Núñez, Ana Rocío
Rodríguez Garrido, María Cintia
Olmo Barros, María Jesús del
author_role author
author2 Rodríguez Garrido, María Cintia
Olmo Barros, María Jesús del
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author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Departamento de Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación
Facultad de Psicología
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Early triadic interactions
Ostensive gestures
Rhythm, Joint actions
Self-directed gestures
Psicología
topic Early triadic interactions
Ostensive gestures
Rhythm, Joint actions
Self-directed gestures
Psicología
description For decades, the literature on the emergence of triadic interactions considers the end of the first year of life as the time when children become able to communicate with others intentionally about a referent. Prior to that, children only relate in dyads, either with someone else or with an object. However, several researchers claim that referents are not naturally given in human communication and that they need to be established in interaction with others. In this study, we focus on earlier triadic interactions initiated by adults, when young babies still require an adult to bring the material world within their reach. In these early triadic interactions, ostensive gestures (with the object in the hand) are one of the first means of enabling the establishment of shared reference. Such gestures are easier to understand since sign (gesture) and referent (object) coincide. We conducted a longitudinal study with 6 babies filmed at 2, 3 and 4 months old in interaction with their mothers and a sounding object (a maraca). We analyzed different communicative initiatives by the adult and the child’s responses. The results show that children come to understand the adult’s communicative intention gradually through interaction. Adults include children in organized communicative “niches” based on ostensive actions, both through ostensive gestures and demonstrations of the use of the object. Consequently, the first shared understandings between adult and child take place around the object and its uses. Rhythm is a powerful tool used to structure the interaction. Eventually, adults provide space to children to actively interact with the sounding object themselves. These results highlight the importance of considering ostensive actions as a communicative tool that favors joint attention and action. They also bring some light to the interdependence between a child who actively perceives and acts, and the structured situation that the adult organizes for them
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