Asset Details
Do you wish to reserve the book?
Social Feedback to Infants' Babbling Facilitates Rapid Phonological Learning
Hey, we have placed the reservation for you!
By the way, why not check out events that you can attend while you pick your title.
Oops! Something went wrong.
Looks like we were not able to place the reservation. Kindly try again later.
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
Social Feedback to Infants' Babbling Facilitates Rapid Phonological Learning
Do you wish to request the book?
Social Feedback to Infants' Babbling Facilitates Rapid Phonological Learning
Please be aware that the book you have requested cannot be checked out. If you would like to checkout this book, you can reserve another copy
We have requested the book for you!
Your request is successful and it will be processed during the Library working hours. Please check the status of your request in My Requests.
Oops! Something went wrong.
Looks like we were not able to place your request. Kindly try again later.
Journal Article
Social Feedback to Infants' Babbling Facilitates Rapid Phonological Learning
2008
Overview
Infants' prelinguistic vocalizations are rarely considered relevant for communicative development. As a result, there are few studies of mechanisms underlying developmental changes in prelinguistic vocal production. Here we report the first evidence that caregivers' speech to babbling infants provides crucial, real-time guidance to the development of prelinguistic vocalizations. Mothers of 9.5-month-old infants were instructed to provide models of vocal production timed to be either contingent or noncontingent on their infants' babbling. Infants given contingent feedback rapidly restructured their babbling, incorporating phonological patterns from caregivers' speech, but infants given noncontingent feedback did not. The new vocalizations of the infants in the contingent condition shared phonological form but not phonetic content with their mothers' speech. Thus, prelinguistic infants learned new vocal forms by discovering phonological patterns in their mothers' contingent speech and then generalizing from these patterns.
Publisher
Blackwell Publishing,SAGE Publications,SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subject
/ Babbling
/ Babies
/ Feedback
/ Feedback, Psychological - physiology
/ Female
/ Humans
/ Imitative Behavior - physiology
/ Infant
/ Infant Behavior - psychology
/ Infants
/ Learning
/ Maternal Behavior - psychology
/ Mothers
/ Phonemes
/ Speech
/ Speech Perception - physiology
/ Verbal Learning - physiology
/ Vowels
