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| Title: |
Effects of Labelled Gender on Vocal Communication of Young Women with 4-month-old Infants |
| Author: |
Pomerleau, Andree Malcuit, Gerard Turgeon, Lyse Cossette, Louise |
| Appeared in: |
International journal of psychology |
| Paging: | Volume 32 (1997) nr. 2 pages 65-72 |
| Year: |
1997-04-01 |
| Contents: |
Most of the previous studies analyzing the effect of gender label on adults' interactive behaviours with infants concluded that gender stereotypes affect adults' behaviours more than the actual behaviours or characteristics of the infants. These stereotypes and their ensuing behaviours would contribute to the differential socialization experiences of infants according to their gender. The objective of the present study was to investigate further the effect of gender label on adults' vocal communication with infants. Therefore, the prosodic and content features of the language addressed by young women to infants presented as girls and as boys were examined. Sixteen women were observed during two 5-minute sessions of face-to-face interaction with 3-to-4-month-old infants, one introduced as a girl, the other as a boy, in a counterbalanced order. Six girls and four boys served as stimuli. The number of utterances addressed to the infants, their duration and fundamental frequency, as well as the prosodic contour and the content of each vocalization were measured. Results indicated only one significant gender label effect: Women referred more frequently to infant's global motor activity when the infant was presented as a boy. This observation is congruent with other data. However, our results do not demonstrate a consistent pattern of gender label effect when women are talking to unfamiliar infants in such a context. La plupart des recherches qui ont examine l'effet du sexe assigne sur les comportements interactifs des adultes avec les nourrissons ont mene a la conclusion que les stereotypes sexuels affectent les comportements des adultes plus que les comportements ou les caracteristiques memes des enfants. Ces stereotypes et les comportements qu'ils entrainent contribueraient a la socialisation differentielle des nourrissons selon leur sexe. La presente etude a pour objectif d'examiner l'effet du sexe assigne sur les vocalisations de l'adulte avec l'enfant. Les caracteristiques prosodiques et le contenu du langage adresse par des jeunes femmes a des nourrissons presentes comme garcons et filles sont analyses. Seize femmes participent a deux sessions d'interaction face-a-face de 5 minutes avec des nourrissons ages de 3-4 mois, l'un presente comme garcon, l'autre comme fille, selon un ordre contrebalance. Six filles et quatre garcons servent de stimuli. Les mesures portent sur le nombre d'enonces, la duree, la frequence fondamentale, le contour prosodique et le contenu de chaque vocalisation. Les resultats n'indiquent qu'un seul effet significatif du sexe assigne: les femmes font plus souvent reference a l'activite motrice globale de l'enfant lorsqu'il est presente comme un garcon. Cette observation parait conforme a celles d'etudes anterieures. Cependant, nos resultats ne montrent pas un impact important de l'etiquetage sexuel sur le langage que des jeunes femmes adressent a un nourrisson non familier dans un tel contexte. |
| Publisher: |
Psychology Press |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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