LINGUAL CO-OCCURRENCE CONSTRAINTS IN BABBLING: AN ACOUSTICAL STUDY

Christine L. Matyear
The University of Texas at Austin

ID 1667
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Acoustical measurements of F2 transitions of 370 babbled CV sequences showed that places of articulation for consonantal closure correlate highly with vocalic tongue frontness/backness. This finding is interpreted as a confirmation of the MacNeilage & Davis Frame-Content theory of speech development.