HOW TWINS LEARN TO TALK: A Study of the Speech Development of Twins from 1 to 3. What effects does that have on the dynamics of verbal interaction? How do twins organize their messages to others, since there are also two possible recipients of their speech, but An immediate and apparent difference is that a message from an adult has not one but two potential recipients.
In particular, she was interested in the manner in which the twin situation differed communicatively from that of singletons. Savi6 set as her task the description of the twin situation, the social union estabhshed between the two children and an adult participant, usually the mother. Twins do not acquire the same features of speech at the same rates or ages as singletons, because their communicative needs and patterns are not socially arranged in the same ways. The differential characteristics of their social communicative environment are, in other words, the determinant factors in speech development. The major contribution, in fact, of this excellent study is the demonstration that the chief characteristics of twin speech development and their differences in comparison with singleton speech are a function primarily of interpersonal schemes in which twins develop their communication. Although Savi6 notes that a comparison of twins and singletons is not her major objective, the book nonetheless adheres to the pattern indicated above. Comparisons of twin and singleton development usually results in a sharpening of the role of the environment in shaping behavior.
Two individuals are copresent and therefore modify, at least potentially, the nature of the interactions among the individuals and vis-&vis the environment. The twin situation by its very nature is different from that of singletons. However, the study of twins is a long-standing tradition in psychology, precisely because their development affords a needed and convenient comparison to the development of singletons.
Twin children are, after all, a fairly rare phenomenon. Blount University of Georgia Savi6 begins her preface with a direct question as to why a special study should be made of the speech of twin children.
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