To explore whether similarities in mother-infant vocal interactional patterns exist across different cultures, 13 American and 19 Greek 3-mo.-old male infants were observed while interacting vocally for 3 min. with their mothers and with a stranger. Both American and Greek adults spoke to the infants for about half of the allotted 3-min. interval. Similarly, both Greek and American 3-mo.-olds spent about the same amount of time responding vocally to the mother and significantly less time responding vocally to the stranger.
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