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Vihman, Marilyn May; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1986
Using Locke's 1983 model, analyzes one tendency, consonant use in babbling and early words, and phonological word-selection patterns in 10 children, aged 8 to 16 months. Individual differences were found in all three domains analyzed, with some increase in uniformity across subjects with increasing knowledge of language. (Author/SED)
Descriptors: Child Language, Consonants, Infants, Language Acquisition

Blake, Joanna; De Boysson-Bardies, Benedicte – Journal of Child Language, 1992
Compares frequencies of cooccurrences in infant babbling between phonetic and contextual categories to expected frequencies, and considers deviations to be patterns in babbling. Results are provided of an examination of utterances of three Canadian-English and three Parisian-French infants whose babblings were transcribed and categorized according…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Consonants, English

Schwartz, Richard G.; Leonard, Laurence B. – Journal of Child Language, 1982
Examines within an experimental paradigm phonological selection and avoidance patterns of infants and discusses the role of these patterns in early lexical acquisition. (EKN)
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Bias, Child Language, Infants
Velleman, Shelley L. – 1987
This longitudinal pilot study, which extends Veneziano's (1987) work on phonetically and semantically contingent maternal response types, compared, microanalytically and globally, maternal response types and mother-child dyadic interactions of normally developing and Down syndrome children. Participants were three normally developing infants, five…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Consonants, Downs Syndrome, Infants