Publication Date:
2000-04-25
Description:
This study shows that a corpus of proto-word forms shares four sequential sound patterns with words of modern languages and the first words of infants. Three of the patterns involve intrasyllabic consonant-vowel (CV) co-occurrence: labial (lip) consonants with central vowels, coronal (tongue front) consonants with front vowels, and dorsal (tongue back) consonants with back vowels. The fourth pattern is an intersyllabic preference for initiating words with a labial consonant-vowel-coronal consonant sequence (LC). The CV effects may be primarily biomechanically motivated. The LC effect may be self-organizational, with multivariate causality. The findings support the hypothesis that these four patterns were basic to the origin of words.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉MacNeilage, P F -- Davis, B L -- R01 HD 27733-07/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Apr 21;288(5465):527-31.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Psychology, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA. macneilage@psy.utexas.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10775113" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Biomechanical Phenomena
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Humans
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Infant
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*Language Development
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Lip/physiology
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Mandible/physiology
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Movement
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*Phonetics
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*Speech
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Tongue/physiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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