**Emotion, Affection and Maternal Speech in Parental Care**

Deise Maria Leal Fernandes Mendes and Luciana Fontes Pessôa

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### **1. Introduction**

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This chapter discusses the role of emotions and affective communication in practices of care and the relevance of these components in children development. The importance of consider‐ ing the different development trajectories as a result of different parental practices that arises from the culture is also discussed. Affection and emotion are considered crucial dimensions of parental care with consequences in childdevelopmentthroughdaily practices, parental beliefs, and expectations that guide the way to raise and to educate children. In the first year of life, children's participation in mother-infant´s interactions, as the free-play situations, involving emotional expressions and vocalizations, is considered a prominent factor for the develop‐ ment of affection, attention, communication and cognitive functioning. Evidence accumulat‐ ed in recent decades has highlighted the role of affective exchanges between parent and their children for a healthy development. Also, mothers´ affective speech and the process by which the language development is constructed or acquired in this interactional context has been subject of various theoretical formulations and gave rise to a diverse literature of empirical investigation.The formulationofmodels andassumptions abouthumandevelopmentrequires an understanding of these processes and the factors associated with them. So, we discuss here these mechanisms in the early stages of ontogeny. Arguments are based on results of some international research and current evidence of Brazilian studies.
