The Emergence of the Speech Capacity

Author: D. Kimbrough Oller
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0805826297
Category: Medical

The Emergence of the Speech Capacity

Recent studies of vocal development in infants have shed new light on old questions of how the speech capacity is founded and how it may have evolved in the human species. Download The Emergence of the Speech Capacity medical books for free.
Vocalizations in the very first months of life appear to provide previously unrecognized clues to the earliest steps in the process by which language came to exist and the processes by which communicative disorders arise.

Perhaps the most interesting sounds made by infants are the uniquely human 'protophones' (loosely, 'babbling'), the precursors to speech. Kimbrough Oller argues that these are most profitably interpreted in the context of a new infrastructural model of speech. The model details the manner in which well-formed speech units are constructed, Get The Emergence of the Speech Capacity our bestseller medical books.

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The model details the manner in which well-formed speech units are constructed,

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