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BABBLING
المؤلف:
John Field
المصدر:
Psycholinguistics
الجزء والصفحة:
P29
2025-07-31
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BABBLING
A pre-linguistic stage when infants produce sounds which resemble adult consonant-vowel (CV) syllables. Infants begin to babble at about 6–10 months; and the stage lasts for up to 9 months. Two types of babbling are observed: reduplicated babble, with the same CV sequence repeated (bababa) and variegated babble, with different CV sequences combined (bamido). Both sometimes adopt an intonation pattern which resembles adult speech.
There are conflicting views as to whether babbling contributes to phonological development. A discontinuity hypothesis claims that there is no link. Exponents point out that some infants undergo a ‘silent period’ between babbling and the emergence of speech and that, regardless of target language (TL), there seems to be a set order in which phonological features are acquired.
A continuity hypothesis maintains that babbling is a precursor to speech, enabling the infant to practise a range of potentially useful sounds, which increasingly resemble those of the TL. The CV syllables produced during later babbling are said to recur in the infant’s first words; and there is said to be a strong correlation between the frequency of sounds in babbling and their frequency in the TL. That said, it should be noted that the omnipresent English sound /ð/ emerges late, as do fricatives in general.
See also: Phonological development: production
Further reading: Ingram (1989) Chap. 5
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اخر الاخبار
اخبار العتبة العباسية المقدسة
الآخبار الصحية
"المهمة".. إصدار قصصي يوثّق القصص الفائزة في مسابقة فتوى الدفاع المقدسة للقصة القصيرة
(نوافذ).. إصدار أدبي يوثق القصص الفائزة في مسابقة الإمام العسكري (عليه السلام)
قسم الشؤون الفكرية يصدر مجموعة قصصية بعنوان (قلوب بلا مأوى)
