0 present participle of babble
1 to talk or say something in a quick, confused, excited, or silly way:
2 (of a stream) to make the low, continuous noise of water flowing over stones:
Thus, their relatively large frequency (4% of all consonants) in early canonical babbling was unexpected, though still much lower than adult frequencies.
What variables are responsible when variegated babbling episodes occur instead of reduplicated episodes?
No single consonant or vowel segments, vegetative sounds, or vocalizations not determined to be canonical babbling were analyzed.
They parallel the early stages of human vocal acquisition and production, including babbling, turn taking, control, and accommodation, with those of nonhuman primates.
The second stage was labeled "variegated babbling," in that consonants, vowels, or both could be different.
Thus, there may not be any clear progression in occurrence of variegation across the babbling period.
Adaptation to language : evidence from babbling and first words in four languages.
This presumption suggests the possibility that babbling drift does not apply (or at least does not apply strongly) to infrastructural development of the speech capacity.
