Phonetics of first language acquisition
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In the first two years of life, most children develop the phonetic scaffolding that is needed to acquire a first language. They learn to perceptually parse the sound patterns of the words and longer utterances that are being said in their hearing, and they learn to respond to phatic utterances that are said to them, practicing a perception-production feedback loop until their vocalizations have enough semblance to the sound patterns of the ambient language that they can begin to communicate with their caretakers using speech. Over the subsequent 10 to 15 years, they fine-tune these phonetic capacities until their speech is reliably intelligible to conversational partners outside of their earliest social circles, and their perception and production patterns indelibly mark them as members of the larger speech communities in which they are growing up. How does all this happen?
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