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Peer reviewedMacNeilage, Peter F.; Davis, Barbara L.; Kinney, Ashlynn; Matyear, Christine L. – Child Development, 2000
Presents evidence for four major design features of serial organization of speech arising from comparison of babbling and early speech with patterns in ten languages. Maintains that no explanation for the design features is available from Universal Grammar; except for intercyclical consonant repetition development, perceptual-motor learning seems…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Influences, Language Acquisition
