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Much variability was found in the range of Fo used within utterances for both groups. The babies with cleft palate had longer utterance duration values. However, both groups remained within a 100 to 500 ms duration criterion for syllable productions at both recordings.","The canonical stage of babbling, defined as 0.5 canonical syllables per utterance, was reached by all control babies at both 13 and 15 months of age. Babies with cleft palate were able to meet this 0.5 criterion if their compensatory articulations were included in deriving the ratio. When compensatory articulations were subtracted however, one baby with cleft palate did not meet criterion and another two babies with cleft palate had ratios lower than their matched controls. All babies with cleft palate had smaller phonetic repertoires and produced fewer CV syllables in their utterances.","Findings from this study further support other reports of decreased phonetic repertoires and delayed language skills in cleft palate children. The acoustic and temporal findings provide data that potentially can be used to identify the speech-like qualities of the early unintelligible utterances of babies with cleft palate.","Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T13:53:34Z (GMT). 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