Tonal synchrony in mother-infant interaction based on harmonic and pentatonic series

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 387-400

  Van Puyvelde, Martine ^a   Vanfleteren, Pol ^a,b   Loots, Gerrit ^a,c   Deschuyffeleer, Sara ^a   Vinck, Bart ^d   Jacquet, Wolfgang ^a   Verhelst, Werner ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d HOGESCHOOL UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Harmonic series; Infant directed speech; Mother infant interaction; Pentatonic series; Tonal synchrony; Vocal interaction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; HARMONIC SERIES; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PENTATONIC SERIES; PITCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHYTHM; SOUND; SPEECH; VOCALIZATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS;

EID: 78649831839     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2010.04.003     Document Type: Article

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