Mothers’ discrimination of their neonates’ cry in relation to cry acoustics: The first week of life
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Early Child Development and Care
- Vol. 65 (1) , 3-11
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0300443900650102
Abstract
This study investigated the temporal evolution in the discrimination of the newborn's crying by the mother, from the first to the eighth day after birth. The sample included twenty human mothers who had had an uneventful pregnancy, labour and delivery. They were asked to identify the spontaneous cries of their newborn babies from tape‐recorded cries containing cries from their own newborn and from three other newborns. On the first day, the percentage of correct answers was 48#pc, then 81 #pc on the eighth day. Two acoustic features that may underlie this discrimination were analyzed: the maximum Fo values and the average number of cry bursts per second. On the seventh day, these two acoustic variables and the discrimination abilities significantly correlate.Keywords
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