Vis a vis early talkers , early walkers

[Paula Menyuk]

I thought I'd join in given our longitudinal study data in Early
Language Development in Full-term and Premature Infants ( Erlbaum,
1995 ).We found no relation or non-relation between early walking and
talking. We did find a speech development chain. The rate at which
the children shifted from vocalization to true babbling related to
the rate at which they achieved articulation mastery of consonantal
sounds. Paula Menyuk.