Variability, within and across subjects, provides a basis for the" selection" of a path into
language use. Illustration of the extent of variation is drawn from children learning four …

Each child must work out the speech gestures and their relation to acoustic patterns anew
based on feed-back from his or her own production practice or babbling as well as on …

A study examined the consistency of consonant use in the infant's transition period from
babbling to early words. Phonetic data were collected from the speech of 10 infants aged 9 …

Linguistic research in child phonology of the past decade or more has been dominated by
two central ideas about children: First that the child is largely a passive organism in which …

Child Phonology, Volume 1: Production contains the proceedings of a conference on child
phonology held at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, on May 28-31 …

This paper reports the results of a study of the persistence of individual differences in the
phonological development of 10 normally developing children observed at age 1 year and …

Considerable interest has been generated concerning linguistic and cognitive factors
influencing the onset of early combinatorial speech. The present diary study provides …

Three studies are reported that deal with individual differences among children in the use of
consonants during the early period of phonological development. The findings indicated that …

Investigating child language development has been an extremely popular research activity
for linguists and psychologists over the past fifteen to twenty years. This research was …

Various types of phonological behavior have been identified as evidence of the
systematization which is said to occur in the course of the transition from early,“whole-word” …