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From: ba672@lafn.org (Arthur T. Murray)
Subject: Re: language development-infant
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In a previous article, ljmiller@iquest.net (Laura J Miller) says:

> I am hoping someone can help me, or at least direct me
> to some literature.........

> As a neurobiology graduate student, I have taken great
> interest in the neurodevelopment of my one year old
> baby (sigh, no longer a baby.....toddler).  [...]

http://www.newciv.org/Mentifex/ is the archival Website of a lin-
quistic theory of mind based in part on ideas about infant speech
and language development.   For instance, the Mentifex mind-model
attempts to explain a "spiral" of the infant acquisition of vari-
ous parts of speech, e.g., first nouns, then verbs,  in a looping
spiral where the infant learns to build up  standard  (Chomskyan)
sentence structures.   The following mind-diagram is an overview:

                Theory of Child Language Learning
  /^^^^^^^^^^^\ (spiral of additions & deletions) /^^^^^^^^^^^\
 /visual memory\           semantic ________     /  auditory   \
|      /--------|-------\  memory  / syntax \   | speech stream |
|      |  recog-|nition |          \________/<--|-------------\ |
|   ___|___     |       |  flush-vector|        |    _______  | |
|  /image  \    |     __|___        ___V___     |   /stored \ | |
| / percept \   |    /deep  \<-----/lexical\<---|--/ phonemes\| |
| \ engrams /<--|-->/concepts\--->/concepts \---|->\ of words/  |
|  \_______/    |   \________/    \_________/   |   \_______/   |
