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- Cooing, the earliest speech-like sound, occurs during the first few months of life, with the production of vowel-like sounds and velar consonants like ______ and [ɡ]
- Cooing, the earliest speech-like sound, occurs during the first few months of life, with the production of vowel-like sounds and velar consonants like ______ and [ɡ]
[k]
- Late babbling occurs around ______ to ten months, with recognizable intonation patterns and syllable sequences like ma-ma-ma and da-da-da.
- Late babbling occurs around ______ to ten months, with recognizable intonation patterns and syllable sequences like ma-ma-ma and da-da-da.
nine
- The one-word stage occurs between ______ and eighteen months, where children produce recognizable single-unit utterances for objects like 'milk', 'cookie', and 'cat'.
- The one-word stage occurs between ______ and eighteen months, where children produce recognizable single-unit utterances for objects like 'milk', 'cookie', and 'cat'.
twelve
Study Notes
Language Acquisition in Infants: The Developmental Timeline
- Children develop language at roughly the same time and schedule as motor skills and brain maturation.
- Infants actively process speech sounds before they begin to talk, evidenced by their attention and sucking behavior.
- By one month, infants can distinguish between [ba] and [pa], and by five months, they can discriminate between syllables like [ba] and [ɡa].
- Cooing, the earliest speech-like sound, occurs during the first few months of life, with the production of vowel-like sounds and velar consonants like [k] and [ɡ].
- Babbling occurs between six and eight months, characterized by different vowels and consonants and combinations like ba-ba-ba and ga-ga-ga.
- Late babbling occurs around nine to ten months, with recognizable intonation patterns and syllable sequences like ma-ma-ma and da-da-da.
- Late babbling also marks the child's ability to use vocalizations to express emotions and emphasis as they stand and attempt imitations.
- Child language researchers report on the age of children's language development, but there is substantial variation among children.
- The one-word stage occurs between twelve and eighteen months, where children produce recognizable single-unit utterances for objects like "milk", "cookie", and "cat".
- Holophrastic speech, where a single form functions as a phrase or sentence, is used to describe these utterances, which may also be extended beyond object naming.
- During this stage, children may refer separately to people and objects but are not yet ready to put the forms together in a more complex phrase.
- Developmental stages should be treated as general approximations subject to variation in individual children.
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Test your knowledge on the development of language in infants with this quiz! Learn about the developmental timeline, from early speech-like sounds to the one-word stage. Discover how infants actively process speech sounds before they begin to talk and at what age they can distinguish between syllables like [ba] and [ɡa]. Explore the different stages of babbling and the use of vocalizations to express emotions and emphasis. Challenge yourself to understand the variation among individual children in their language development. Take this quiz to
