Expressive timing and interactional synchrony between mothers and infants: cultural similarities, cultural differences, and the immigration experience

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First things first: infants make good use of the sympathetic rhythm of imitation, without reason or language (2005, background): “Maya Gratier (2003) has found that the playfully musical quality of a mothers imitative communication with her infant, which signals her intimate pleasure with the baby and confidence in herself, may be lost if she has been transported from her home culture to a strange land.”
Limitations and transformations of habitus in Child-Directed Communication (2005, background): “…that attempt to analyze the interfaces between innate neurological and cognitive proclivities and facilitating facets of communicative environments in which infants are immersed (Bates and Elman, 2000; Cole and Cole, 1996; Fernald, 1992; Gratier, 1999, 2001, 2003; Trevarthen, 1988, 1998, 2003).”
The musical art of infant conversation: Narrating in the time of sympathetic experience, without rational interpretation, before words (2008, background): “A feeling of “belonging” or being “at home” is important for a person who is required to be sympathetic and playfully inventive in a musical way with a young child (Gratier, 1999, 2003).”
Developing patterns of parenting in two cultural communities (2011, background): “Gratier (2003) has made an interesting start in exploring this issue; but much more research is needed.”