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A babbling infant, age 2 months, making cooing sounds A babbling infant, age 6 months, making ba and ma sounds. Babbling is a stage in child development and a state in language acquisition during which an infant appears to be experimenting with uttering articulate sounds, but does not yet produce any recognizable words.
From shortly after birth to around one year, the baby starts to make speech sounds. At around two months, the baby engages in cooing, which mostly consists of vowel sounds. At around four to six months, cooing turns into babbling, which is the repetitive consonant-vowel combinations. [73] Babies understand more than they are able to say.
For example, French learning 9-10 month-olds have been found to produce a bigger proportion of prevoiced stops (which exist in French but not English) in their babbling than English learning infants of the same age. [19] This phenomenon of babbling being influenced by the language being acquired has been called babbling drift. [20]
From birth, babies are learning to communicate. The communication begins with crying and then begins to develop into cooing and babbling. Infants develop their speech by mimicking those around them. Gestures and facial expressions are all part of language development.
Jargon babbling includes strings of such sounds; this type of babbling uses intonation but doesn't convey meaning. The phonemes and syllabic patterns produced by infants begin to be distinctive to particular languages during this period (e.g., increased nasal stops in French and Japanese babies) though most of their sounds are similar.
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At a very young age, children can distinguish different sounds but cannot yet produce them. During infancy, children begin to babble. Deaf babies babble in the same patterns as hearing babies do, showing that babbling is not a result of babies simply imitating certain sounds, but is actually a natural part of the process of language development ...
Babbling is mindless chatter, incoherent speech, etc, not baby talk. 70.29.208.69 05:04, 6 July 2009 (UTC) Oppose Yes, "babble" is a commonly used linguistic term and might be the best simple word to use. "Baby language" would not be ideal because what babies are producing prior to producing words is not language.