{"id":7344,"date":"2019-05-22T15:55:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/babbling_drift\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:55:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:55:52","slug":"babbling_drift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/babbling_drift\/","title":{"rendered":"Babbling drift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The theory that the sounds in infant babbling begin to approximate those of the target language well before the onset of the first words. &nbsp;The process of approximation begins about 9-14 months. &nbsp;In the past, there were problems in finding data in support of this theory. &nbsp;More recent cross-language studies, however, have suggested relatively early language effects on infants&#8217; babbling behavior. &nbsp;For example, the linguistic origin of babbling samples by six-month-old French and Arabic infants were perceived above chance by a group of French phoneticians. &nbsp;The same result obtained in the case of non-phoneticians for corresponding groups of eight-month-olds. &nbsp;The theory (or hypothesis) was first put forward by the linguist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nap.edu\/readingroom\/books\/biomems\/rbrown.html\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.nap.edu\/readingroom\/books\/biomems\/rbrown.html&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roger William Brown<\/a> (1925-1997) in 1958.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"babbling\">Babbling<\/a>, <a href=\"language_development\">Language development<\/a>, <a href=\"speech_development\">Speech development<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theory that the sounds in infant babbling begin to approximate those of the target language well before the onset of the first words. &nbsp;The process of approximation begins about 9-14 months. &nbsp;In the past, there were problems in finding data in support of this theory. &nbsp;More recent cross-language studies, however, have suggested relatively early &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/babbling_drift\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Babbling drift&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}