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The sounds of babbling are produced before an infant begins to construct recognizable words. [5] This can be partly attributed to the immaturity of the vocal tract and neuromusculature at this age in life. [6] Infants first begin vocalizing by crying, followed by cooing and then vocal play.
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. In this 0–8 months range, the child is engaged in vocal play of vegetative sounds, laughing, and cooing. [74] Once the child hits the 8–12 month, range the child engages in ...
Crying and vegetative sounds are controlled by the brain stem, which matures earlier than the cortex. Neurological development of higher brain structures coincides with certain developments in infants’ vocalizations. For example, the onset of cooing at 6 to 8 weeks happens as some areas of the limbic system begin to function. The limbic ...
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Manual babbling is a linguistic phenomenon that has been observed in deaf children and hearing children born to deaf parents who have been exposed to sign language. Manual babbles are characterized by repetitive movements that are confined to a limited area in front of the body similar to the sign-phonetic space used in sign languages.
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Between the ages of 4–6 months infants have a greater response towards different tones in voices, and greater engagement, watching the speaker's face. The child's own language skills develop with larger variation in babbling sounds, and elicit responses in conversation through babbling.