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The missing link's missing link: Syllabic vocalizations at 3 months of age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1998

Kathleen Bloom
Kathleen Bloom
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada kbloom@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
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Abstract

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If syllables are the link between nonhuman calls and human speech, as MacNeilage suggests, then that link is actually revealed in the “syllabic” sounds of the 3-month-old infant, well before the reduplicative babbling of the 8-month-old. Anatomical, acoustic, cognitive, and social perceptual evidence supports this earlier landmark.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , August 1998, pp. 514 - 515
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© 1998 Cambridge University Press