Infant Crying

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Introduction

   • Barry M. Lester

   Pages 1-27

3. The Physiology of Cry and Speech in Relation to Linguistic Behavior

   • Philip Lieberman

   Pages 29-57

4. A Physioacoustic Model of the Infant Cry

   • Howard L. Golub, Michael J. Corwin

   Pages 59-82

5. Twenty-Five Years of Scandinavian Cry Research

   • Ole Wasz-Höckert, Katarina Michelsson, John Lind

   Pages 83-104

6. Sound Spectrographic Cry Analysis of Pain Cry in Prematures

   • Carl-Johan Thodén, Anna-Liisa Järvenpää, Katarina Michelsson

   Pages 105-117

7. The Newborn Infant Cry

   • Raymond H. Colton, Alfred Steinschneider, Lois Black, John Gleason

   Pages 119-137

8. The Communicative and Diagnostic Significance of Infant Sounds

   • Peter F. Ostwald, Thomas Murry

   Pages 139-158

9. A Developmental Perspective of Infant Crying

   • Philip Sanford Zeskind

   Pages 159-185

10. Perception of Infant Crying as an Interpersonal Event

    • C. F. Zachariah Boukydis

    Pages 187-215

11. Aversiveness is in the Mind of the Beholder

    • Ann D. Murray

    Pages 217-239

12. Physiology and Behavior

    • Wilberta L. Donovan, Lewis A. Leavitt

    Pages 241-261

13. When Empathy Fails

    • Ann Frodi

    Pages 263-277

14. A Comparative Model of Infant Cry

    • Jennifer S. Buchwald, Carl Shipley

    Pages 279-305

15. The Infant Cry of Primates

    • John D. Newman

    Pages 307-323

16. Application of Cry Research to Clinical Perspectives

    • T. Berry Brazelton

    Pages 325-340

17. Crying

    • Martin Bax

    Pages 341-348

18. Epilogue

    • Peter H. Wolff

    Pages 349-354

19. Back Matter

    Pages 355-375

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The cries of infants and children are familiar to essentially all adults, and we all have our own common sense notions of the meanings of various cries at each age level. As is often the case, in the study of various aspects ofhuman behavior we often investigate what seems self­ evident to the general public. For example,if an infant cries, he or she needs atttention;if the cry is different than usual, he or she is sick; and when we areupsetby othermatters, children's crying can be very annoy­ ing. As a pediatric clinician often faced with discussing with parents their concerns or lack of them with respect to their children's crying, these usual commonsense interpretations were frequently inadequate. As this book illustrates, when we investigate such everyday behaviors as children's crying and adults' responses to crying, the nature of the problem becomes surprisingly complex. As a pediatrician working in the newborn nursery early in my career, I knew from pediatric textbooks and from nursery nurses, that newborn infants with high, piercing cries were often abnormal. In order to teach this interestingphenomenon to others and tounderstand under what circumstances it occurred, I found I needed to know what consti­ tuted a high-pitched cry or even a normal cry, for that matter, and how often this occurred with sick infants. Certainly I saw sick infants who did not have high-pitched cries, but I still wonderedif their cries were deviant in some other way.

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• The Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

  Barry M. Lester, C. F. Zachariah Boukydis

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