ABSTRACT
Marilyn Vihman contrasts two views of the origin of phonetic gestures. On the one hand is the proposal of Liberman and Mattingly (1985) that the speech perceptuomotor link is "biologically based" (p. 6), "not a learned association ... but innately specified, requiring only epigenetic experience to bring it into play" (p. 3). On the other is the view developed by Vihman (chapter 4 this volume) that each infant has "to rediscover the relevant gestures through attention to the speech of others."
