TY - JOUR N1 - © 2004 Cambridge University Press IS - 4 TI - In the beginning was the song: The complex multimodal timing of mother-infant musical interaction EP - 517 AV - public VL - 27 Y1 - 2004/08// SP - 516 JF - Behavioral and Brain Sciences A1 - Longhi, E A1 - Karmiloff-Smith, A ID - discovery181295 N2 - 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? SN - 0140-525X UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X04370111 ER -