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  2. Language development - Wikipedia

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    Relationship between interpersonal communication and the stages of development. The greatest development of language occurs in the stage of infancy. As the child matures, the rate of language development decreases. 0-1 years of age: An infant mainly uses non-verbal communication (mostly gestures) to communicate. For a newborn, crying is the ...

  3. Phonetics - Wikipedia

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    Phonetics deals with two aspects of human speech: production (the ways humans make sounds) and perception (the way speech is understood). The communicative modality of a language describes the method by which a language produces and perceives languages. Languages with oral-aural modalities such as English produce speech orally and perceive ...

  4. Origin of speech - Wikipedia

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    The origin of speech differs from the origin of language because language is not necessarily spoken; it could equally be written or signed. Speech is a fundamental aspect of human communication and plays a vital role in the everyday lives of humans.

  5. Spanish phonology - Wikipedia

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    The alveolar trill [r] is one of the most difficult sounds to produce in Spanish and is acquired later in development. [136] Research suggests that the alveolar trill is acquired and developed between the ages of three and six years. [137] Some children acquire an adult-like trill within this period, and some fail to properly acquire the trill.

  6. Phonological history of Spanish coronal fricatives - Wikipedia

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    Historical development of the Spanish sibilants. Text is in Spanish; Roman numerals represent centuries AD. In the 15th century, Spanish had developed a large number of sibilant phonemes: seven by some accounts, [2] eight by others [3] (depending on whether /d͡ʒ/ and /ʒ/ are considered contrasting), more than any current dialect. During the ...

  7. Phonological development - Wikipedia

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    Phonological development refers to how children learn to organize sounds into meaning or language during their stages of growth. Sound is at the beginning of language learning. Children have to learn to distinguish different sounds and to segment the speech stream they are exposed to into units – eventually meaningful units – in order to ...

  8. Language acquisition - Wikipedia

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    Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language.In other words, it is how human beings gain the ability to be aware of language, to understand it, and to produce and use words and sentences to communicate.

  9. Babbling - Wikipedia

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    Around 9–10 months, babies can imitate non speech sounds, and speech-like sounds if they are in the child's repertoire of sounds. [14] Infant babbling begins to resemble the native language of a child. The final stage is known as conversational babbling, or the "jargon stage".