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Peer reviewedLabov, William; Labov, Teresa – Language, 1978
A detailed analysis of a six-month period in a child's acquisition of phonetic and phonological capacities indicates that the apparent plateau of the second year is a site of intensive language learning, which is not reflected in the growth of vocabulary or mean length of utterance. (Author/EJS)
Descriptors: Child Language, Consonants, Language Acquisition, Phonetic Analysis
