Laughter in the cradle: A taxonomy of infant laughables
Résumé
This paper proposes a taxonomy for the laughables (events giving rise to laughter) of the child in their first year of life. We hypothesize that a child's laughables (within the first year) may relate to the following factors: sensory stimulation, cognitive challenges, and social interaction. We use Piaget's theory as a starting point for explicating the cognitive basis of the laughables, taking into account much subsequent literature. To test our hypothesis, we ran two longitudinal corpus studies using the Rollins Corpus and the SAYCam Corpus. On the basis of the results obtained, we developed a taxonomy of laughables. We believe this to be the most detailed empirical study of laughables hitherto conducted in research on child laughter.
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