It contrasts data-based interactionist, cognitive models of phonological development with
earlier deductive behaviorist and structuralist accounts. Setting these models in current …

Purpose Current approaches to speech production aim to explain adult behavior and so
make assumptions that, when taken to their logical conclusion, fail to adequately account for …

A theoretical sequence of cognitive developments is proposed as influencing
representational play and language in the second year of life. Scale analysis supported an …

This book provides an extensive overview of research into child production and perception.
It focuses primarily on the first two years of life because, for the majority of children, that …

Phonological structure may be seen as emerging in ontogeny from the combined effects of
performance constraints rooted in the neuromotor and perceptual systems, individual lexical …

A cross-cultural investigation of the influence of target-language in babbling was carried out.
1047 vowels produced by twenty 10-month-old infants from Parisian French, London …

The goal of this technical report on childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) was to assemble
information about this challenging disorder that would be useful for caregivers, speech …

Researchers frequently examine the development of the single-word lexicon in the absence
of phonetic data. Yet a large body of literature demonstrates relationships between the …

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 …

A growing body of research has documented effects of phonotactic probability on young
children's nonword repetition. This study extends this research in 2 ways. First, it compares …