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Beyond cry and laugh: Toward a multilevel model of language production

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2014

Marc H. Bornstein  and
Gianluca Esposito
Marc H. Bornstein
Affiliation:
Child and Family Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Rockledge I, Bethesda, MD 20892-7971, USA. Marc_H_Bornstein@nih.gov http://www.cfr.nichd.nih.gov/index.html
Gianluca Esposito
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, University of Trento, Trento, 38068, Italy. gianluca.esposito@unitn.it http://polorovereto.unitn.it/~esposito/ Division of Psychology, Nanyang Technological University, 639798, Singapore.
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Abstract

Language production is a multilevel phenomenon, and human capacities to communicate vocally progress from early forms, based on projections of motor cortex to brainstem nuclei, to complex elaborations, mediated by high-order cognition and fostered by socially mediated feedback.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 37 , Issue 6 , December 2014 , pp. 548 - 549
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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