Sound-meaning Correspondences in Babbling.

Blake, Joanna; Fink, Robert

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ERIC Number: EJ355593

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Publication Date: 1987

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Sound-meaning Correspondences in Babbling.

Blake, Joanna; Fink, Robert

Journal of Child Language, v14 n2 p229-53 Jun 1987

Analysis of the babbling of five infants indicated that between 14 and 40 percent of utterances recurred in particular contexts with a greater than expected frequency, suggesting that babbling is not entirely random but contains consistent sound-meaning relationships that are not adult-modeled. (Author/CB)

Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Child Language, Connected Discourse, Distinctive Features (Language), Infants, Language Patterns, Language Styles, Linguistic Theory, Oral Language, Phonemes, Pragmatics, Semantics, Structural Analysis (Linguistics)

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Language: English

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