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Peer reviewedDavis, Barbara L.; MacNeilage, Peter F. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1990
Vowel production of a 14-month-old girl was studied over a 6-month period. Sixty percent of the vowels were produced correctly. A complex pattern of vowel preferences and errors was partially related to prespeech babbling preferences and strongly related to word structure variables (monosyllabic versus disyllabic). (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns
Download full textLord, Catherine – 1975
The significance of three mothers' speech for their infants' language development is considered in a continuing longitudinal study. The study began when the children (two females and one male) were 5 and 6 months of age and will continue until the subjects are 3 years old. In the speech data reported the children were from 6 to 18 months of age.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Imitation, Infant Behavior, Language Acquisition
