Where's the Drift? A Cross-linguistic Study.

Thevenin, Deborah M.; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ323903

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Publication Date: 1985

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Where's the Drift? A Cross-linguistic Study.

Thevenin, Deborah M.; And Others

Applied Psycholinguistics, v6 n1 p3-15 Mar 1985

Describes a study of adult listeners' perceptions of infant babbling. Adult judges were unable to identify language background significantly above chance level. Findings do not support the babbling drift hypothesis which predicts that babbling begins to approximate characteristics of the mother tongue as infants approach meaningful speech. (SED)

Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Processing, Language Research, Phonology, Psycholinguistics, Speech

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Language: English

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