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ERIC Number: EJ603926
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
The Motor Core of Speech: A Comparison of Serial Organization Patterns in Infants and Languages.
MacNeilage, Peter F.; Davis, Barbara L.; Kinney, Ashlynn; Matyear, Christine L.
Child Development, v71 n1 p153-63 Jan-Feb 2000
Presents evidence for four major design features of serial organization of speech arising from comparison of babbling and early speech with patterns in ten languages. Maintains that no explanation for the design features is available from Universal Grammar; except for intercyclical consonant repetition development, perceptual-motor learning seems to have a limited cause role in acquisition of any design feature. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Influences, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Rhythm, Language Universals, Nature Nurture Controversy, Perceptual Motor Learning, Serial Learning, Speech, Theories
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Universal Grammar
Note: Special Theme Issue: "New Directions for Child Development in the Twenty-First Century."