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During the past 5 years, investigations of social development at the Laboratoire de Psychobiologie de l’Enfant in Paris have centered on the ontogeny of communicative competence during early childhood. This general theme has been subdivided into a number of more specific topics that have become the particular interest of different research groups at the laboratory. Children’s capacities to initiate socially directed behaviors, to respond to actions that have been directed to themselves, to synchronize these social exchanges, and to successfully transmit messages to social partners emerge progressively from birth during the course of social interaction with familiar others.
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Baudonnière, PM., Garcia-Werebe, MJ., Michel, J., Liégeois, J. (1989). Development of Communicative Competencies in Early Childhood: A Model and Results. In: Schneider, B.H., Attili, G., Nadel, J., Weissberg, R.P. (eds) Social Competence in Developmental Perspective. NATO ASI Series, vol 51. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2442-0_11
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