Similarly, babbling in human babies may reflect a self-organized intrinsic dynamic. When the uttered sounds resemble a particular word, the happy parents regard them as a real word. They reinforce such spontaneous utterances with a corresponding object, action, or phenomenon, until it acquires a meaning for the baby. Exploitation of the default self-organized patterns of the brain prior to language is a more effective mechanism of pattern formation than a de novo, blank-slate solution. (Chapter 13).
