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  2. List of onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 December 2024. This is a list of onomatopoeias, i.e. words that imitate, resemble, or suggest the source of the sound that they describe. For more information, see the linked articles. Human vocal sounds Achoo, Atishoo, the sound of a sneeze Ahem, a sound made to clear the throat or to draw attention ...

  3. List of animal sounds - Wikipedia

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    Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication. The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns , and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic .

  4. Vocabulary development - Wikipedia

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    At this stage, babies start to play with sounds that are not used to express their emotional or physical states, such as sounds of consonants and vowels. [7] Babies begin to babble in real syllables such as "ba-ba-ba, neh-neh-neh, and dee-dee-dee," [7] between the ages of seven and eight months; this is known as canonical babbling. [4]

  5. Baby talk - Wikipedia

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    Baby talk, language regardless, usually consists of a muddle of words, including names for family members, names for animals, eating and meals, bodily functions and genitals, sleeping, pain, possibly including important objects such as diaper, blanket, pacifier, bottle, etc., and may be sprinkled with nonverbal utterances, such as goo goo ga ga ...

  6. Toddler - Wikipedia

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    Young children squat instinctively as a continuous movement from standing up whenever they want to lower themselves to ground level. One- and two-year-olds can commonly be seen playing in a stable squatting position, with feet wide apart and bottom not quite touching the floor, although at first they need to hold on to something to stand up again.

  7. Phonological development - Wikipedia

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    Of course, the reason why children need to learn the sound distinctions of their language is because then they also have to learn the meaning associated with those different sounds. Young children have a remarkable ability to learn meanings for the words they extract from the speech they are exposed to, i.e., to map meaning onto the sounds.

  8. Syntactic bootstrapping - Wikipedia

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    In the experiment, children who heard the word 'hope' presented in the same syntactic frame as 'want' (i.e. followed by an infinitival verb) connected the new verb 'hope' with a meaning of desire. On the other hand, those that heard 'hope' presented in the same frame as 'think' (i.e. followed by a finite verb) made no such association between ...

  9. Babbling - Wikipedia

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    From birth to 1 month, babies produce mainly pleasure sounds, cries for assistance, and responses to the human voice. [14] Around 2 months, babies can distinguish between different speech sounds, and can make "goo"ing sounds. [14] Around 3 months, babies begin making elongated vowel sounds "oooo" "aaaa", and will respond vocally to speech of ...

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