%0 Journal Article %@ 0140-525X %A Longhi, E %A Karmiloff-Smith, A %D 2004 %F discovery:181295 %J Behavioral and Brain Sciences %N 4 %P 516 - 517 %T In the beginning was the song: The complex multimodal timing of mother-infant musical interaction %U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/181295/ %V 27 %X In this commentary we raise three issues: (1) Is it motherese or song that sets the stage for very early mother-infant interaction? (2) Does the infant play a pivotal role in the complex temporal structure of social interaction? (3) Is the vocal channel primordial or do other modalities play an equally important role in social interaction? %Z © 2004 Cambridge University Press