Speech-Related Breathing in Infants: How Much Do We Really Know?

Abstract

A rich area of research is the question of how infants learn to use the respiratory system to produce increasingly complex utterances during the first 2 years of life. Understanding infant speech-related breathing is foundational to properly describing human speech development. This article serves as a brief introduction to research on speech-related breathing in infancy. The goal of this summary article is to provide a springboard—and an invitation—for researchers interested in pursuing the respiratory aspects of early speech development.