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LANGUAGE BABIES
PERCEIVE
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LANGUAGE BABIES
PRODUCE
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Birth to 6
months
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• Rhythms in any language
of the world
• Vowels and consonants in
any language of the world
• Familiar voices
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• Birth cry and other
reflexive sounds
• Cooing, gurgling, laughing
• Vocal experiments:
screaming, putting lips
together, blowing
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6 to 12
months
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• Fewer and fewer vowels
and consonants in
languages that are not in
their environment
• More and more patterns in
the languages they hear
• Some words pronounced
slowly and clearly
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• repetitive babbling using
sounds of the languages in
the environment
• Long string of babbling
with adult-like intonation
• Word-like utterances that
may have several meanings
• Some musical notes
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12 to 18
months
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• Categories and nuances
of words
• Words within phrases
• Short phrases
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• First word (differing from
language to language)
• Naming explosion or
“word spurt”
• Repeating, shouting,
interjecting
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18 to 24
months
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• Awareness of language
• Order of words in phrases
• Increasingly complex
words and phrases
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• “Telegraphic speech” with
word order appropriate to
the particular language
• Consonants t, k, b, d, g, n,
m, f, s, h, and w
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