Assertion: babble | /r/HasProperty | linguistic
Facets:
value: fundamentally
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Our hypothesis was, that if babbling is just the baby getting control of the mouth, and all early vocal behaviors are equally non-linguistic, then you wouldn’t expect to see any differences whether the baby is smiling, or yawning, or crying, or producing those endearing repetitive little bundles of sound, such as ‘dadada,’ which we all know as babbles,” said Petitto.
text: Our findings establish that the linguistic centers are online early, and that babbling is a fundamentally linguistic activity,” Petitto said.
text: Babbling is referred to as a prelinguistic skill: meaning a skill that happens prior to the development of language and speech.