Do parents of different cultures show the same interactional characteristics in joint interactions?
The rate and duration of coordination differed across infants with different cultural backgrounds.
Gampe, A., Hartmann, L., & Daum, M. M. (2020). Dynamic interaction patterns of monolingual and bilingual infants with their parents. Journal of Child Language, 47(1), 45–63. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000919000631
Are children able to adapt their communication within the same situation?
bilingual children adapted their level of ostension between Partners.
Gampe, A., Wermelinger, S., & Daum, M. M. (2019). Bilingual children adapt to the needs of their communication partners, monolinguals do not. Child Development, 90(1), 98–107.
https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13190
Is what we observe linked to what we do?
The development of action perception and action production shows a dynamic development in the first year.
Gampe, A., Keitel, A., & Daum, M. M. (2015). Intra-individual variability and continuity of action and perception measures in infants. Frontiers in Psychology, 6.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00327
Do childern accumulate efficient modifications across generations?
young children showed the ratchet effect to a limited extent, accumulating efficient modifications but not going beyond the inventive level of the individual.
Tennie, C., Walter, V., Gampe, A., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2014). Limitations to the cultural ratchet effect in young children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 126, 152–160. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2014.04.006