‘I beg your pardon?’
The preverbal negotiation of failed messages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20366362 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roberta Michnick Golinkoff (0000-0003-3299-9720, University of Delaware, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 455-476 |
| Publication date | 1986-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Child Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-0009 • E-ISSN: 1469-7602 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0305000900006826 |
| PMID | 3793809 |
| OpenAlex | W2151763574 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 60 |
| References cited | 6 |
This longitudinal study of how preverbal infants communicate with their mothers utilized the situation in which the infant was seated in a highchair at lunchtime. This situation predisposed infants to use communication as a means, since they were often unable to achieve their goals without assistance. It was found that infants' communicative attempts were often unsuccessful; the present study focussed on how infants and mothers worked to establish the infants' intents after communication failures. In the preverbal negotiation of failed messages infants direct communicative behaviours to their mothers which their mothers fail to comprehend immediately, NEGOTIATIONS occur when mothers help infants make their intents clear. Negotiation episodes have four components: the infant's initial signal, the mother's comprehension failure, infant repairs and episode outcome. Changes in these components provide much information about how infants' communicative skills evolve during the transition to a linguistically based communication system. Negotiation episodes are contrasted with episodes called IMMEDIATE SUCCESSES in which the mother readily comprehends the intent behind the infant's signal, and MISSED ATTEMPTS in which the mother fails to pick up on the infant's signal. Taken together these three types of communicative episode reveal a degree of persistence and creativity on the part of the preverbal infant that is surprising in the light of prior research. Such episodes further reveal that the course of preverbal communication is NOT smooth
Comprehension · Developmental psychology · Interpersonal communication · Language development · Linguistics · Negotiation · Child Development and Digital Technology · Infant Health and Development · Language Development and Disorders · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 60 |
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| Citations per year | 1,58 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2026 (39) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 51 |