Feb 3 ===== Lederberg/etal:2013 ------------------- How is manual babbling defined and how can it be distinguished from random movements? What about languages that have a completely different (morphosyntactical) structure - Can we still apply the findings of the paper? When talking about the bimodal input (SimCom / spoken language), the paper says that after 30 months of age, the effects of communication mode disappeared. Does this mean there is an advantage to using SimCom below 30 months, but after this age, the advantage is lost and the spoken language only children are able to catch up with their peers?