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Phylogenesis, culturogenesis, ontogenesis, and microgenesis all contribute to human phenomena. A complete account of the smallest grain of language behavior would require consideration of the social and historical forces affecting language and imitation, the individual ontogenetic variables in language development as they are expressed in imitation, and the microgenetic processes of rapid, small-unit acquisition of language as it is mediated by modeling and imitating.
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Tharp, R.G., Burns, C.E.S. (1989). Phylogenetic Processes in Verbal Language Imitation. In: Speidel, G.E., Nelson, K.E. (eds) The Many Faces of Imitation in Language Learning. Springer Series in Language and Communication, vol 24. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1011-5_10
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