“…There is some evidence in the literature to suggest that earlier onsets of JBR are related to vocabulary (DeBaryshe, 1993) and emergent literacy (Allison & Watson, 1994). Theoretically, JBR should provide infants or toddlers with a wealth of cognitive, linguistic, and educational advantages (Moerk, 1985) that would greatly help them in perceiving, parsing, and eventually recognizing various aspects of the language stream (Aslin, Saffran, & Newport, 1998;Jusczyk, 1997;Jusczyk & Hohne, 1997) at a critical juncture in the developmental course of language acquisition. However, in over 30 years of research, only two very early studies in the area (Irwin, 1960;Wells, 1985) report findings with children below 18 months of age.…”