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Whereas 1-month-olds only exhibit this preference if the full speech signal is played to them, 4-month-old infants prefer infant-directed speech even when just the pitch contours are played. [6] This shows that between 1 and 4 months of age, infants improve in tracking the suprasegmental information in the speech directed at them.
Around 4 months, babies may vary their pitch, and imitate tones in adult speech. [14] Around 5 months, babies continue to experiment with sound, imitating some sounds made by adults. [14] Around 6 months, babies vary volume, pitch and rate. When infants are 6 months old they are finally able to control the opening and closing of the vocal tract ...
By 24–30 months awareness of rhyme emerges as well as rising intonation. [78] One study concludes that children between the ages of 24 and 30 months typically can produce 3–4-word sentence, create a story when prompted by pictures, and at least 50% of their speech is intelligible. [77]
Young toddlers acquire one to three words per month. A vocabulary spurt often occurs over time as the number of words learned accelerates. It is believed that most children add about 10 to 20 new words a week. [13] Between the ages of 18 and 24 months, children learn how to combine two words such as no bye-bye and more please. [5]
The vision of infants under one month of age ranges from 6/240 to 6/60 (20/800 to 20/200). [4] By two months, visual acuity improves to 6/45 (20/150). By four months, acuity improves by a factor of 2 – calculated to be 6/18 (20/60) vision. As the infant grows, the acuity reaches the healthy adult standard of 6/6 (20/20) at six months. [5]
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A late talker is a toddler experiencing late language emergence (LLE), [2] [3] which can also be an early or secondary sign of an autism spectrum disorder, or other neurodevelopmental disorders such as fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, intellectual disability, learning disability, social communication disorder, or specific language impairment.
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