This article describes a neural network model of speech motor skill acquisition and speech
production that explains a wide range of data on variability, motor equivalence …

During the canonical stage of infant babbling, infants produce well-formed syllables, often in
reduplicated sequences such as “bababa.” Although nearly all infants with normal hearing …

Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly
revised edition of the bestselling Cognitive Development. The new edition of this full-colour …

Increasingly, children grow up hearing two languages from birth. This comprehensive
textbook explains how children learn to understand and speak those languages. It brings …

Encountering the World reorients modern psychology by finding a viable middle ground
between the study of nerve cells and cultural analysis. The emerging field of ecological …

The central focus of this text is language development as a field of basic research, but
applied issues are also considered. Chapter 1 provides an overview and history of the field …

This totally revised edition is a thoroughly referenced and an exhaustive description of the
current state of knowledge on hearing and auditory disorders in infants, toddlers and young …

Recent studies of vocal development in infants have shed new light on old questions of how
the speech capacity is founded and how it may have evolved in the human species …

The new edition of a comprehensive introduction to a rapidly develo** field, combining
developmental data with theory. How do children begin to use language? How does …

Infants 18 to 20 weeks old recognize the correspondence between auditorially and visually
presented speech sounds, and the spectral information contained in the sounds is critical to …