摘要：This study investigated relationships between engagement in joint atention and the early language development in infancy. Subjects were 12 infants and their mothers. At 20 and 25 months of age,each child's spontaneous natural speech during interaction with his/her caregiver was videotaped for about 30 minutes. The EJA (Episodes of joint attention) focus between mother and child were identified and coded by Tomasello and Todd's (1983) and Bakeman and Adamson's (1984) including person engagement, object engagement,looking engagement,passive joint attention,coordinated joint attention. Results showed that a signifcant difference in infant's language development between within and outside EJA at 20 and 25 months of age;that is,during periods of EJA children talked more inside than outside EJA..
关键词：joint attention;early Language development;infant-mother interaction
