Describe how infants and caregivers communicate in the first year
What will be an ideal response?
Infants pay more attention to certain aspects of adult speech, and adults incorporate these features of speech when they speak to infants.
This type of speech is called infant-directed speech.
Infant-directed speech has shorter sentences, more clearly articulated words, repeated words and phrases, higher pitch, more variable pitch, exaggerated stress, and imitation of infant speech, all of which serve to attract infants’ attention to adults when they are speaking to them.
Infants and adults also engage in joint attention, where both are looking at or listening to the same stimuli, and are aware that the other person is intentionally looking at that stimulus. This enables infants more easily to learn words that name or describe the stimulus.
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