Abstract There is a major debate in the scholarly literature on whether early vocalizations imitate the mother tongue (L1) and whether prosody is an emerging feature of intentional communication. This longitudinal study explores the combinatory patterns of gestures and vocalizations of four Basque children aged 0:7 to 1:1 in the protoconversational stage. A total of 1,043 communicative acts were labelled (noting the kind of communication, the eye contact and the type of gestures), in which a total of 581 vocalizations were pragmatically and acoustically codified (marking the length and tonal range). The results showed that before they produce their first words, the children show a predominant pattern, tending to combine the deictic gestures with eye contact with the interlocutor. Furthermore, the children are capable of choosing specific prosodic signals — such as length and tonal range — to expression the intentionality of their vocalizations. This suggests that some prosodic features work as procedural antecedents in the process of constructing oral compositions.

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口头交流开始之前发声，手势和韵律之间的协调：巴斯克语的证据/口头交流开始之前发声，手势和韵律之间的协调：巴斯克语的证据

摘要在学术文献中，关于早期发声是否模仿母语（L1）以及韵律是否是有意交流的新兴特征，存在很大的争议。这项纵向研究探讨了在原始会话阶段中4位0：7至1：1的巴斯克儿童的手势和发声的组合模式。总共标记了1,043个交往行为（注意交流的种类，目光接触和手势的类型），其中在实用和听觉上共编码了581个发声（标记了长度和音调范围）。结果表明，在说出第一个单词之前，孩子表现出显着的模式，倾向于将偏僻的手势与与对话者的眼神交流结合在一起。此外，孩子们能够选择特定的韵律信号（例如长度和音调范围）来表达其发声的意图。某些韵律特征暗示了在构建口腔组合物过程中作为程序的先例的作用。