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Peer reviewedWaldron, Manjula B. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
A quantitative model of speech development is proposed based on observations of normal hearing and congenitally deaf children. Nonlinear controls used during the development of suprasegmental and segmental aspects of speech are identified. Linguistic components of speech are ignored. The importance of the associative cortex in speech-motor control…
Descriptors: Child Development, Deafness, Manual Communication, Mathematical Models
Wedell-Monnig, Jacelyn; Westerman, Terry B. – 1977
The feedback model of maternal language indicates that maternal language development is tailored to child feedback. The conversational model indicates that adjustment in mothers' speech occurs before the onset of child language. In order to verify the validity of these models, the language of mothers of six hearing and six deaf 13- to…
Descriptors: Child Language, Deafness, Discourse Analysis, Handicapped Children
