Extreme poverty and the development of precursors to the speech capacity
Abstract
The study of infant vocal development has suggested that babbling is an important precursor of the speech capacity. In addition, research has shown that the babbling of infants is biologically robust - it develops normally in infants from widely varying environments of language and socio-economic status. Babbling development is so robust that even premature birth does not appear to slow its course in healthy infants. © 1995, Sage Publications. All rights reserved.
Publication Title
First Language
Recommended Citation
Oller, D., Eilers, R., Basinger, D., Steffens, M., & Urbano, R. (1995). Extreme poverty and the development of precursors to the speech capacity. First Language, 15 (44), 167-187. https://doi.org/10.1177/014272379501504403
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