caa a22 4500 386359040 CHVBK 20180307111909.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198902 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0305000900013404 doi S0305000900013404 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0305000900013404 A crosslinguistic investigation of vowel formants in babbling [Elektronische Daten] A cross-cultural investigation of the influence of target-language in babbling was carried out. 1047 vowels produced by twenty 10-month-old infants from Parisian French, London English, Hong Kong Cantonese and Algiers Arabic language backgrounds were recorded in the cities of origin and spectrally analysed. F1-F2 plots of these vowels were obtained for each subject and each language group. Statistical analyses provide evidence of differences between infants across language backgrounds. These differences parallel those found in adult speech in the corresponding languages. Implications of an early build-up of target-language-oriented production skills are discussed. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 de Boysson-Bardies Bénédicte C.N.R.S. & E.H.E.S.S. Université Paris V Halle Pierre C.N.R.S. & E.H.E.S.S. Université Paris V Sagart Laurent C.N.R.S. & E.H.E.S.S. Université Paris V Durand Catherine C.N.R.S. & E.H.E.S.S. Université Paris V Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/1(1989-02), 1-17 0305-0009 16:1<1 1989 16 JCL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900013404 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000900013404 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- de Boysson-Bardies Bénédicte C.N.R.S. & E.H.E.S.S. Université Paris V NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Halle Pierre C.N.R.S. & E.H.E.S.S. Université Paris V NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sagart Laurent C.N.R.S. & E.H.E.S.S. Université Paris V NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Durand Catherine C.N.R.S. & E.H.E.S.S. Université Paris V NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Child Language Cambridge University Press 16/1(1989-02), 1-17 0305-0009 16:1<1 1989 16 JCL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge