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From crying to words: Unique or multilevel selective pressures?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2006

Daniela Lenti Boero  and
Luciana Bottoni
Daniela Lenti Boero*
Affiliation:
Corso di laurea in Scienze Psicologiche e delle Relazioni di Aiuto, Universit de la Valle d'Aoste, 11110 Aosta. Italy http://www.disat.unimib.it/bioacoustics
Luciana Bottoni*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Ambiente e del Territorio, Universit degli Studi Milano Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy
*
d.lentiboero@univda.it
luciana.bottoni@unimib.it
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Abstract:

In the first year of life, infants' utterances change from high-intensity crying to low-intensity acoustic sound strings, acoustically labelling the first word. This transition implies: (1) decoding of phonetic sounds, (2) encoding of phonetic sounds, and (3) a unique linking of an articulated sound to a specific object. Comparative, ontogenetic, and phylogenetic aspects are considered for multilevel selective pressures.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , June 2006 , pp. 292 - 293
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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