Movement Patterns in Spoken Language
- 21 April 2000
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 288 (5465) , 449-451
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.288.5465.449
Abstract
When babies start to babble, they babble some sounds more often than others. In his Perspective, Locke discusses the findings of a new analysis of babbling babies in environments where English or other languages such as French, Swedish, or Japanese are spoken (MacNeilage and Davis). It turns out that babies preferentially babble four sequences of consonant and vowel sounds, a tendency that is reflected in the structure of protowords found in many of the world9s languages.Keywords
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