Before Speech Book

1. Introduction: prelinguistic communication: a field for scientific research M. Bullowa;
2. 'The epigenesis of conversational interaction': a personal account of research development M. C. Bateson;
3. Evidence of communication in neonatal behavioral assesment T.B. Brazelton;
4. Mutual regulation of the neonatal-maternal interactive: context for the origins of communication P.F. Chappell and L.W. Lander;
5. Describing the structure of social interaction in infancy G.M. Collis;
6. Neonata entrainment and enculturation W.S. Condon;
7. Blind infants and their mothers: an examination of the sign system S. Fraiberg;
8. One child's protolanguage M.A.K. Halliday;
9. Thickening thin data: the maternal tole in devloping communication and language K. Kaye;
10. The growth of shared understandings between infant and caregiver J. Newson;
11. How wild chimpanzee babies trigger the onset of mother-infant play - and what the mother makes of it F. Plooij;
12. Making sense of experience to make sensible sounds D. Ricks;
13. Talking and playing with babies: the role of ideologies of child-rearing C.E. Snow, A. de Blauw and G. van Roosmalen;
14. Early tactile communication and the patterning of human organization: a New Guinea case study E.R. Sorenson;
15. Communication starts with selective attention K. Stensland Junker;
16. Communication and cooperation in early infancy: a description of primary intersubjectivity C. Trevarthen;
17. Structure of early face-to-face communicative interactions E. Tronick, H. Als and L. Adamson; Bibliography (and citation and names index).