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  <Title>61 A Computational Model of Emergent Simple Syntax: Supporting the Natural Transition from the One-Word Stage to the Two-Word Stage.</Title>
  <Section position="3" start_page="61" end_page="62" type="intro">
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2 Pre-One-Word Stage Children
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Linguistic abilities can be found in children prior to word production. In terms of comprehension, children can distinguish between their mothers voice and a strangers voice, male and female voices, and sentences spoken in their mothers native language and sentences spoken in a different language. They also show categorical perception to voice, can use formant transition information to mark articulation, and show intonation sensitivity (Pinker, 1994, Jusczyk, 1999).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> In terms of production, children produce noises, such as discomfort noises (0-2 months), comfort noises (2-4 months), and play vocally with pitch and loudness variations (4-7 months) (Pinker, 1994). The babbling stage (6-8 months) is characterised with the production of recognisable syllables. The syllables are often repeated, such as [mamama] and [papapa], with the easiest to produce sounds often being associated with members of the family (Jakobson, 1971).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> From this evidence it is reasonable to draw conclusions about linguistic abilities in the young child that can be used to frame assumptions for use in the system. It is assumed that the system can receive and produce strings that can be broken down into their component words. These words can be compared and equalities can be detected.</Paragraph>
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