What can the Utterance ‘Tan, Tan’ of Broca’s Patient Leborgne Tell Us about the Hypothesis of an Emergent ‘Babble-Syllable’ Downloaded by SMA?

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Abstract We wish to thank the following people for comments and references: Monica BaciuRaybaudi, Pierre Badin, Pierre Bessiere, Catherine Best, Gerhard Blanken, Driss Boussaoud, Benedicte de Boysson-Bardies, Stephanie Brosda, Marie-Agnes Cathiard, Patrick Chauvel, Barbara Davis, Jean Decety, Jean-Frarn;ois Demonet, Jacques Durand, Christopher Frith, Vincent Gracco, Julie Grezes, Pierre Halle, Marc Jeannerod, Jean-Pierre Joseph, Catherine Liegeois-Chauvel, Helene Lrevenbruck, Peter MacNeilage, Jean-Luc Nespoulous, David Ostry, Yohan Payan, Claude Prablanc, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Christoph Segebarth, Saul Sternberg, Carol Stoel-Gammon, Jacques Vauclair, Marilyn Vihman; we also received the help of the teams involved in the ‘Speech Emergence and Robotics’ project (ARASSH, Lyon) and in the French Cogniscience Programme (Paris).