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Excerpt from A Preliminary Study in Corrective Speech
Young animals make noises as an instinctive response to environ mental or internal stimuli and babies indulge in vocalization in the same way in which they reach and grasp for Objects or ceaselessly move their eyes from place to place. Certain of these chance sounds resulting from accidental positions Of the baby's vocal organs tend to be reproduced because of pleasant results Of either approval and admiration of its efforts or satisfaction of its wants. Gradually these sounds become associated with the Objects or activities which they represent. The sounds which shall become attached to an Object depend on the language environment of the child. One child may come to associate the sound bow wow with a dog, another will say doggie, and a third may say woof woof depending largely on which name tends to become fixed as a result Of parental approval. Children frequently develop a language of their own, intelligible only to themselves or to their playmates. When this mode Of speech has once become established, it takes careful train ing to develop more desirable Speech habits.
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