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The role of perceived variability in the transition to language*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2008

Patricia Marks Greenfield
Patricia Marks Greenfield
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University of California, Los Angeles
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Abstract

This article will treat attention to variability as a perceptual structure which mediates the transition from sensorimotor activity to language. The guiding idea is that the attentional system is geared to variability from the very beginning of life and that a speaker's language use is coordinated with this system as it emerges.

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Journal of Child Language , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , February 1982 , pp. 1 - 12
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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