2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The development of Communication between Preverbal Infants and their Parents across Cultures
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23530884
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Educational psychology
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| Research Institution | Shohoku College |
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Principal Investigator |
OKAMOTO Yoriko 湘北短期大学, その他部局等, 准教授 (00315730)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SUGANO Yukie 青山学院女子短期大学, 子ども学科, 准教授 (50317608)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 代弁 / 前言語期 / 親子コミュニケーション / 文化 |
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| Research Abstract |
How can parents communicate with preverbal infants? Infants and parents make asymmetric contributions to their communication. This study focused on Parental Proxy Talk (PPT), which is that the parent verbalizes as if their non-verbal infant feels and thinks it. First, longitudinal data from Japanese families was analyzed on functions of PPT. The result showed 12 functional categories like Promotion of Infant's Act and Intention, Understanding the Situation, and so on. PPT can work for infants as well as for parents. Second, data from American families and Japanese ones were compared. It showed American parents use PPTs for their infants and both PPTs have similar functions. It, however, found some typical situations that showed dissimilarities, for example, an achievement situation. Japanese parents tried to share the infant's achievement as if it was parent's one using PPT. American parents avoided using PPT since they could respect the infant's own achievement.
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