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Studdert-Kennedy (in press) recently advised developmen-talists to “refrain from regarding precursors of a behavior as instances of the behavior itself,” and I do not intend to argue here that babbling represents an early stage of language or that it constitutes some type of proto-phonological system. In fact, my intention is not to consider the linguistic status of babbling itself, but to ask whether babbling normally precipitates other behaviors which are themselves linguistic.
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Locke, J.L. (1986). The Linguistic Significance of Babbling. In: Lindblom, B., Zetterström, R. (eds) Precursors of Early Speech. Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08023-6_11
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