Infant vocalizations in response to speech: vocal imitation and developmental change.

By Patricia K. Kuhl, Andrew N. Meltzoff. 1996

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Early Experience & Multisensory Perceptual Narrowing (2014, background): “Second, it is known that the development of speech-production capacity in infancy is facilitated by imitation, languagespecific experience, and social contingency (de Boysson-Bardies, Hallé, Sagart, & Durand, 1989; Goldstein & Schwade, 2008; Kuhl & Meltzoff, 1996).”
Seeing and hearing speech excites the motor system involved in speech production. (2003, background): “Imitation of speech sounds or vocalisations is not seen in non-human primates, but imitation of speech sounds and facial gestures have been demonstrated in human infants [22,27].”
Social Feedback to Infants' Babbling Facilitates Rapid Phonological Learning (2008, background): “Mean reliability was .95 (range: .90–1.00).”
Language Use, Coordination, and the Emergence of Cooperative Action (2008, background): “, tongue or lip protrusion) is observed in neonates [44], and by 12 weeks of age, infants imitate vocalic sounds [35].”
Cognitive Developmental Robotics: A Survey (2009, background): “Meanwhile, infants’ utterances are first quasi-vocalic sounds that resemble vowels and gradually adapted to their caregiver’s ones [127] along with descent of”
Explaining Facial Imitation: A Theoretical Model. (1997, background): “isons, because infants use auditory guidance to help achieve the match (Kuhl and Meltzoff, 1996).”
Mothers provide differential feedback to infants' prelinguistic sounds (2006, background): “Not only can parents imitate various acoustic aspects of their infants’ sounds during social interactions (Papousek, 1992), infants can also imitate different acoustic features of adult speech (Kessen et al., 1979; Kuhl & Meltzoff, 1996).”
Singing as Communication (2005, background): “…also shown in the reported ability of infants aged three to four months to imitate an exaggerated prosodic pitch contour presented by their mothers (Masataka 1992), as well as an ability to imitate basic vowels at the same age after only fifteen minutes laboratory exposure (Kuhl and Meltzoff 1996).”
Infant non-distress vocalization during mother-infant face-to-face interaction: Factors associated with quantitative and qualitative differences (2001, unknown): “Experimental and naturalistic studies showed that prelinguistic infants imitate the phonetic and prosodic structure in their mothers' speech (Kuhl & Meltzoff, 1996; Kugiumutzakis, 1993; Masataka, 1992; Papousek & Papousek, 1989).”
The Relationship Between Infants’ Production Experience and Their Processing of Speech (2014, background): “Although a few studies have reported an early connection between an infant’s ability to organize perceptual categories and to produce language-specific patterns (e.g., Kuhl & Meltzoff, 1996), the mechanism for the development of this relationship remains unclear.”
Phonetic learning as a pathway to language: new data and native language magnet theory expanded (NLM-e) (2008, background): “We view the connection as developmental in nature, i.e. infants forge a link between speech perception and production based on perceptual experience and a learned mapping between perception and production (Kuhl & Meltzoff 1982, 1996).”
Matching phonetic information in lips and voice is robust in 4.5-month-old infants (1999, background): “Kuhl and Meltzoff (1988, 1996) reported that, in a preferential-looking paradigm, 4.5-month-olds imitated the vowel that matched the vowel they both saw and heard.”