Phonological memory, or the ability to remember a novel word string well enough to repeat it, has long been characterized as a time-limited store. An alternative embodiment model sees it as the product of the dynamic sensorimotor (perceptual and production) processes that inform responses to speech. Keren-Portnoy et al. (2010) demonstrated that this capacity, often tested through nonword repetition and found to predict lexical advance, is itself predicted by the first advances in babbling. Pursuing the idea that phonological memory develops through vocal production, we trace its development—drawing on illustrative data from children learning six languages—from the earliest adult-like vocalizations through to the first words and the consolidation of early words into an initial lexical network and more stable representational capacity. We suggest that it is the interaction of perceptual and production experience that mediates the mapping of new forms onto lexical representations.

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语音记忆的发展起源。

语音记忆，或者能够很好地记住一个新的单词串并重复它的能力，长期以来一直被描述为一个有时间限制的存储。另一种具体化模型将其视为动态感觉运动（感知和生产）过程的产物，该过程通知对语音的反应。Keren-Portnoy 等人。(2010) 表明，这种能力通常通过非单词重复进行测试，并被发现可以预测词汇的进步，而这种能力本身是由牙牙学语的第一次进步所预测的。追求语音记忆通过声音产生发展的想法，我们追踪它的发展——利用儿童学习六种语言的说明性数据——从最早的类似成人的发声到第一个单词，以及将早期单词整合到一个初始词汇网络和更稳定的代表能力。