Extreme poverty and the development of precursors to the speech capacity
- 1 February 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in First Language
- Vol. 15 (44) , 167-187
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014272379501504403
Abstract
The study of infant vocal development has suggested that babbling is an important precursor of the speech capacity. In addition, research has shown that the babbling of infants is biologically robust - it develops normally in infants from widely varying environments of language and socio-economic status. Babbling development is so robust that even premature birth does not appear to slow its course in healthy infants.Keywords
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