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Peer reviewedMasur, Elise Frank – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1995
Examined the relationship between infants' early verbal imitation, when the ability to copy behaviors first emerges, and their lexical development during the second year of life. Twenty infants were examined longitudinally at ages 10, 13, 17, and 21 months. Suggests that infants' early imitation of words not in their repertoires predicts and may…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Caregiver Speech, Child Development, Imitation
