Our understanding of the relationships between lexical and phonological development has
been enhanced in recent years by increased interest in this area from language scientists …

This article offers a developmental theory of language and the neural systems that lead to
and subserve linguistic capabilities. Early perceptual experience and discontinuities in …

Evolutionary Phonology is a theory of sound patterns which synthesizes results in historical
linguistics, phonetics and phonological theory. In this book, Juliette Blevins explores the …

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 …

Language involves a duality of patterning, as Hockett (1954) has noted. On the one hand,
there are patterns that pertain to the way that sounds are organized; on the other, there are …

It contrasts data-based interactionist, cognitive models of phonological development with
earlier deductive behaviorist and structuralist accounts. Setting these models in current …

Paediatric speech and language therapists are challenged by diminished resources and
increasingly complex caseloads. The new edition addresses their concerns. Norms for …

The new edition of the leading textbook for English applied phonetics and phonology A
leading textbook for English Phonetics and Phonology, the fourth edition of Applied English …

This book explores the origin and evolution of speech. The human speech system is in a
league of its own in the animal kingdom and its possession dwarfs most other evolutionary …

This book provides an extensive overview of research into child production and perception.
It focuses primarily on the first two years of life because, for the majority of children, that …