[lbo-talk] Toward some better thoughts

[Miles Jackson]

Chris Doss wrote:
> "Produc[ing] all the possible sounds of all human languages" is the same thing as "randomly making noises with the human voice box," like "producing all the possible sounds of a piano concerto" is (or can be) the same thing as "randomly beating on a piano keyboard." Does she explain how this develops into languages, for instance, do the gurglings take on a different character depending on whatever linguistic environment the baby is raised in?
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Yes.  The more an infant hears a particular language, the more the 
babbling is focused on the phonemes of that language.

Miles