Children's speech development begins in infancy. The pattern of this development has been
explored in studies over a number of years using a range of research methodology and …

Stage models have been influential in characterizing infant vocalizations in the first year of
life. These models are basically descriptive and do not explain why certain types of vocal …

The early relationship between children's emerging articulatory abilities and their capacity to
process speech input was investigated, following recent studies with English-learning …

Phonological memory, or the ability to remember a novel word string well enough to repeat
it, has long been characterized as a time-limited store. An alternative embodiment model …

Infants begin learning the phonological structure of their native language remarkably early
and use this information to extract word-sized chunks from the speech signal. While …

To become language users, infants must embrace the integrality of speech perception and
production. That they do so, and quite rapidly, is implied by the native-language attunement …

The present study focuses on the characteristics of parental child-directed communication
and its relationship with child language development. For this purpose, thirty-six toddlers (18 …

Purpose This study examines the temporal organization of vocalic anticipation in German
children from 3 to 7 years of age and adults. The main objective was to test for nonlinear …

The aim of this study was to examine longitudinally gestural and vocal coordination in
multimodal communicative patterns during the period of transition to first words, and its role …

The emergence of features plays a key role in any theory of phonological development that
does not assume that they are innately available before the onset of speech. After reviewing …