Maya Gratier
Biographic Data
| ID | 4244262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maya Gratier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maya |
| FAMILY NAME | Gratier |
| SIGNATURE | GRATIER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Paris Nanterre |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6193-8495 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Acoustic Features of Emotional Expression in Preverbal Infant Vocalizations
The musicality of human communication before the onset of words enables mutual interaction from early infancy and lays the foundation for language development. The present study investigated the development of infants’ emotional vocalizations across the first year of life, with a specific focus on their acoustic properties. Analyses revealed systematic age-related changes in acoustic features, with pronounced shifts in pitch height, spectral clar…
Comment les bébés apprennent-ils
Rhythm and the embodied aesthetics of infant-caregiver dialogue
This paper explores how phenomenological notions of rhythm might accommodate a richer description of preverbal infant-caregiver dialogue. Developmental psychologists have theorized a crucial link between rhythm and intercorporeality in the emergence of intersubjectivity and self. Drawing on the descriptions of rhythm in the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Erwin Straus, Henri Maldiney and Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, the paper emphasizes the r…
Melodic contours of maternal humming to preterm infants in kangaroo care and infants’ overlapping vocalizations
Tonal or melodic contours of maternal voice directed to infants play a role in infants’ self-regulation and vocal responsiveness. However, we are unaware about melodic contours of maternal humming directed to preterm infants and its role for infants’ vocal responsiveness. We aimed (1) to identify the melodic contours (sinusoidal, bell-shaped, U-shaped, rising, falling, and linear contours) of maternal humming directed to preterm infants in kangar…
Infants’ overlapping vocalizations during maternal humming
Despite the neurological vulnerability of premature newborns, there is evidence that they are able to process temporal aspects of the maternal voice, as a previous study observed more overlapping vocalizations during maternal humming versus speech. However, there is a lack of knowledge about the markers of the infants’ overlapping vocalizations. Our aim was to identify the location of overlapping vocalizations during the humming and the impacts o…
Parental Perception of Vocal Contact with Preterm Infants
In this study, we evaluate mothers' subjective experience of speaking and singing to their infants while they are in their incubators. We also discuss the relevance of the theoretical framework of Communicative Musicality for identifying the underlying mechanisms that may help explain its beneficial effects, both for parents and infants. Nineteen mothers talked and sung to their stable preterm infants in the incubators, for 5 min each, in three s…
Fathers’ and Mothers’ Infant Directed Speech Influences Preterm Infant Behavioral State in the Nicu
Imitation and repetition of prosodic contour in vocal interaction at 3 months
This study investigates vocal imitation of prosodic contour in ongoing spontaneous interaction with 10- to 13-week-old infants. Audio recordings from naturalistic interactions between 20 mothers and infants were analyzed using a vocalization coding system that extracted the pitch and duration of individual vocalizations. Using these data, the authors categorized a sample of 1,359 vocalizations on the basis of 7 predetermined contours. Pairs of id…
Du rythme expressif à la narrativité dans l'échange vocal mère-bébé
Le rythme est un aspect fondamental et fondateur de la relation précoce mère-enfant. Il fonde la perception du temps et le sentiment d’exister avant même le développement d’un soi qui agit. In utero déjà les rythmes de la parole et des mouvements du corps qui parle et qui communique laissent leur empreinte sur le psychisme en devenir et préparent les capacités anticipatoires du nourrisson. Cette revue de la littérature présente des travaux empiri…
Tacit Communicative Style and Cultural Attunement in Classroom Interaction
This article examines the effect of a teacher's cultural representations and tacit communicative style on interactive practices in the classroom. We compare two second-grade classrooms constituted predominantly by Latino immigrant children and teachers with differing cultural representations of education. Through video and acoustic analyses of matched samples of classroom activities we document a discourse style that is more group oriented in one…
Phrasing and fragmented time in “pathological” mother-infant vocal interaction
This paper presents the results of an ecological perturbation study of mother-infant vocal interaction. We compared the temporal organisation of spontaneous interactions between 3–month-old infants and mothers who suffered from “borderline personality disorder” and control mothers and infants. Previous studies of vocal interaction have shown that they present a hierarchical temporal organisation. This study focused specifically on “phrasal” units…
Grounding in musical interaction
This study explores the issue of mutual understanding between musicians in improvised performance. It attempts to describe how improvising musicians indicate to each other that they have grasped each other's expressive intentions in order to collaboratively negotiate common expressive trajectories. The process of moment-to-moment monitoring of shared understanding is referred to as “grounding”. Shared knowledge, beliefs and assumptions provide an…
Les rythmes de l'intersubjectivité
Ça me fait du bien, on parle et on partage »
Harmonies entre mère et bébé
La sensibilité au temps est-elle innée ? Les recherches sur les interactions nourrisson-adulte suggèrent que dès la naissance, le bébé est capable d’appréhender le rythme et qu’il est particulièrement sensible au rythme des interactions sociales naturelles. L’analyse des interactions vocales précoces offre des éclairages importants sur la façon dont le bébé s’accorde et s’ajuste de manière dynamique et créative aux expressions de l’adulte. Par ai…
Expressions of belonging
The rhythmic structure of naturally occurring mother-infant vocal interaction was analysed within three different cultural contexts. Previous research suggests that rhythm is used universally to facilitate the sharing of affect and meaning. Well-timed mother-infant communication is thought to permit a particular form of direct mind-to-mind communication. The purpose of the study was to ascertain whether one of the functions of this “intersubjecti…
Imitation and repetition of prosodic contour in vocal interaction at 3 months
This study investigates vocal imitation of prosodic contour in ongoing spontaneous interaction with 10- to 13-week-old infants. Audio recordings from naturalistic interactions between 20 mothers and infants were analyzed using a vocalization coding system that extracted the pitch and duration of individual vocalizations. Using these data, the authors categorized a sample of 1,359 vocalizations on the basis of 7 predetermined contours. Pairs of id…
Expressions of belonging
The rhythmic structure of naturally occurring mother-infant vocal interaction was analysed within three different cultural contexts. Previous research suggests that rhythm is used universally to facilitate the sharing of affect and meaning. Well-timed mother-infant communication is thought to permit a particular form of direct mind-to-mind communication. The purpose of the study was to ascertain whether one of the functions of this “intersubjecti…
Harmonies entre mère et bébé
La sensibilité au temps est-elle innée ? Les recherches sur les interactions nourrisson-adulte suggèrent que dès la naissance, le bébé est capable d’appréhender le rythme et qu’il est particulièrement sensible au rythme des interactions sociales naturelles. L’analyse des interactions vocales précoces offre des éclairages importants sur la façon dont le bébé s’accorde et s’ajuste de manière dynamique et créative aux expressions de l’adulte. Par ai…
Ça me fait du bien, on parle et on partage »
Phrasing and fragmented time in “pathological” mother-infant vocal interaction
This paper presents the results of an ecological perturbation study of mother-infant vocal interaction. We compared the temporal organisation of spontaneous interactions between 3–month-old infants and mothers who suffered from “borderline personality disorder” and control mothers and infants. Previous studies of vocal interaction have shown that they present a hierarchical temporal organisation. This study focused specifically on “phrasal” units…
Grounding in musical interaction
This study explores the issue of mutual understanding between musicians in improvised performance. It attempts to describe how improvising musicians indicate to each other that they have grasped each other's expressive intentions in order to collaboratively negotiate common expressive trajectories. The process of moment-to-moment monitoring of shared understanding is referred to as “grounding”. Shared knowledge, beliefs and assumptions provide an…
Les rythmes de l'intersubjectivité
Du rythme expressif à la narrativité dans l'échange vocal mère-bébé
Le rythme est un aspect fondamental et fondateur de la relation précoce mère-enfant. Il fonde la perception du temps et le sentiment d’exister avant même le développement d’un soi qui agit. In utero déjà les rythmes de la parole et des mouvements du corps qui parle et qui communique laissent leur empreinte sur le psychisme en devenir et préparent les capacités anticipatoires du nourrisson. Cette revue de la littérature présente des travaux empiri…
Tacit Communicative Style and Cultural Attunement in Classroom Interaction
This article examines the effect of a teacher's cultural representations and tacit communicative style on interactive practices in the classroom. We compare two second-grade classrooms constituted predominantly by Latino immigrant children and teachers with differing cultural representations of education. Through video and acoustic analyses of matched samples of classroom activities we document a discourse style that is more group oriented in one…
Imitation and repetition of prosodic contour in vocal interaction at 3 months
This study investigates vocal imitation of prosodic contour in ongoing spontaneous interaction with 10- to 13-week-old infants. Audio recordings from naturalistic interactions between 20 mothers and infants were analyzed using a vocalization coding system that extracted the pitch and duration of individual vocalizations. Using these data, the authors categorized a sample of 1,359 vocalizations on the basis of 7 predetermined contours. Pairs of id…
Fathers’ and Mothers’ Infant Directed Speech Influences Preterm Infant Behavioral State in the Nicu
Infants’ overlapping vocalizations during maternal humming
Despite the neurological vulnerability of premature newborns, there is evidence that they are able to process temporal aspects of the maternal voice, as a previous study observed more overlapping vocalizations during maternal humming versus speech. However, there is a lack of knowledge about the markers of the infants’ overlapping vocalizations. Our aim was to identify the location of overlapping vocalizations during the humming and the impacts o…
Parental Perception of Vocal Contact with Preterm Infants
In this study, we evaluate mothers' subjective experience of speaking and singing to their infants while they are in their incubators. We also discuss the relevance of the theoretical framework of Communicative Musicality for identifying the underlying mechanisms that may help explain its beneficial effects, both for parents and infants. Nineteen mothers talked and sung to their stable preterm infants in the incubators, for 5 min each, in three s…
Melodic contours of maternal humming to preterm infants in kangaroo care and infants’ overlapping vocalizations
Tonal or melodic contours of maternal voice directed to infants play a role in infants’ self-regulation and vocal responsiveness. However, we are unaware about melodic contours of maternal humming directed to preterm infants and its role for infants’ vocal responsiveness. We aimed (1) to identify the melodic contours (sinusoidal, bell-shaped, U-shaped, rising, falling, and linear contours) of maternal humming directed to preterm infants in kangar…
Rhythm and the embodied aesthetics of infant-caregiver dialogue
This paper explores how phenomenological notions of rhythm might accommodate a richer description of preverbal infant-caregiver dialogue. Developmental psychologists have theorized a crucial link between rhythm and intercorporeality in the emergence of intersubjectivity and self. Drawing on the descriptions of rhythm in the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Erwin Straus, Henri Maldiney and Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, the paper emphasizes the r…
Comment les bébés apprennent-ils
Acoustic Features of Emotional Expression in Preverbal Infant Vocalizations
The musicality of human communication before the onset of words enables mutual interaction from early infancy and lays the foundation for language development. The present study investigated the development of infants’ emotional vocalizations across the first year of life, with a specific focus on their acoustic properties. Analyses revealed systematic age-related changes in acoustic features, with pronounced shifts in pitch height, spectral clar…
Infant Health and Development (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Language Development and Disorders (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Communication (5 works) · Neuroscience and Music Perception (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Acoustics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Audiology (3 works)