Abstract
The role of audition and vision in eliciting early imitation of speech sounds was examined in this study. Thirty infants, 3 to 4 months of age, were presented with the vowel sounds /a/ and /u/. For one half of the infants, these sounds were paired with an adult who silently articulated the same vowel; for the other half, the adult articulated the opposite one. Only the infants who were exposed to matched auditory and visual information were observed to imitate the vowels. The results suggested that multimodal information is useful for the acquisition of speech sounds.
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