Abstract
Normal language acquisition and adult verbal behavior presuppose speech production. This fact makes it reasonable to assume that languages tend to evolve sound patterns that can be seen as adaptations to biological constraints of speech production. This reasoning seems valid also for speech perception and speech development, which presumably introduce their own boundary conditions on linguistic form. The constraints of speaking, listening, and learning thus interact in complex ways to delimit humanly possible sound patterns.
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Lindblom, B. (1983). Economy of Speech Gestures. In: MacNeilage, P.F. (eds) The Production of Speech. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8202-7_10
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