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Publication details [#36536]

Boysson-Bardies, Bénédicte de, Pierre Halle, Laurent Sagart and Catherine Durand. 1989. A crosslinguistic investigation of vowel formants in babbling. Journal of Child Language 16 (1) : 1–17.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

baby talk | crosslinguistic perspective | language, production of | vowel

Language as a subject

Arabic | Chinese, Cantonese | English | French

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0305-009

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This crosslinguistic study of the impact of target-language on babbling, points to an early construing of target-language-oriented production skills. The examined languages include French, English, Chinese and Arabic.