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Schick, Johanna, Fryns, Caroline, Wegdell, Franziska, Laporte, Marion, Zuberbühler, Klaus, van Schaik, Carel P., Townsend, Simon W. and Stoll, Sabine (2022) The function and evolution of child-directed communication. PLoS Biology, 20 (5). e3001630. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3001630 ISSN 1545-7885.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001630
Abstract
Humans communicate with small children in unusual and highly conspicuous ways (child-directed communication (CDC)), which enhance social bonding and facilitate language acquisition. CDC-like inputs are also reported for some vocally learning animals, suggesting similar functions in facilitating communicative competence. However, adult great apes, our closest living relatives, rarely signal to their infants, implicating communication surrounding the infant as the main input for infant great apes and early humans. Given cross-cultural variation in the amount and structure of CDC, we suggest that child-surrounding communication (CSC) provides essential compensatory input when CDC is less prevalent—a paramount topic for future studies.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Children -- Language , Language acquisition , Interpersonal communication in children , Interpersonal communication in infants, Child development | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | PLoS Biology | ||||||
Publisher: | Public Library of Science | ||||||
ISSN: | 1545-7885 | ||||||
Official Date: | 21 April 2022 | ||||||
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Volume: | 20 | ||||||
Number: | 5 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 36 | ||||||
Article Number: | e3001630 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001630 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | VoR not published yet [09-05-2022] | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 May 2022 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 10 May 2022 |
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