The missing link's missing link: Syllabic vocalizations at 3 months of age

Journal/Book: Behav Brain Sci. 1998; 21: 40 West 20TH Street, New York, NY 10011-4211. Cambridge Univ Press. 514-515.

Abstract: If syllables are the link between nonhuman calls and human speech, as MacNeilage suggests, then that link is actually revealed in the ''syllabic'' sounds of the 3-month-old infant, well before the reduplicative babbling of the 8-month-old. Anatomical, acoustic, cognitive, and social perceptual evidence supports this earlier landmark.

Note: Editorial Bloom K, Univ Waterloo, Dept Psychol, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, CANADA

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