Studies within evolutionary musicology and ontogenetic development propose an intimate relation between the quality of the human voice, the rhythm of interactional patterns (e.g. the alternation between repetition and improvisation), the origins of aesthetics, and the characteristics of performances within the temporal arts. Focusing on the role of auditory perception in children's development of narrative skills, this article similarly proposes an intimate relation between children's voices in interaction, their imitative use of formulaic and genre-specific language, and their creative and aesthetically attuned written compositions. The notion of voice opens up a productive and coherent approach to investigating how children interactionally and imitatively come to develop a command and reflexive understanding of spoken and written genres. The discussion is based on a full ethnography of children's acquisition of written language during their second school year.

进化音乐学和个体发育方面的研究提出了人类声音的质量、交互模式的节奏（例如重复和即兴之间的交替）、美学的起源和时间艺术中的表演特征之间的密切关系。本文着眼于听觉感知在儿童叙事技能发展中的作用，同样提出了儿童在互动中的声音、他们对程式化和特定类型语言的模仿使用，以及他们创造性和审美调谐的写作之间的密切关系。声音的概念开辟了一种富有成效且连贯的方法来研究儿童如何通过交互和模仿来发展对口头和书面类型的命令和反思性理解。