UTD Researcher Finds Sound Progress in Infant Speech Development
The sounds babies make in their first year might be more purposeful than previously thought, according to Dr. Pumpki Lei Su, an assistant professor at The University of Texas at Dallas and Director of the Language Interaction and Language Acquisition in Children Lab (LILAC Lab) at the Callier Center for Communication Disorders. As co-lead author of two recent studies, Dr. Su found that infants are actively involved in learning speech from an earlier age, challenging the notion that their vocalizations are random. Dr. Su states, “We observed in these studies that infant vocalizations are not produced randomly; they form a pattern, producing three categories of sounds in clusters,”.
UTD Researcher Finds Sound Progress in Infant Speech Development