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  2. Babbling - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Mama and papa - Wikipedia

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    Mama and papa use speech sounds that are among the easiest to produce: bilabial consonants like /m/, /p/, and /b/, and the open vowel /a/.They are, therefore, often among the first word-like sounds made by babbling babies (babble words), and parents tend to associate the first sound babies make with themselves and to employ them subsequently as part of their baby-talk lexicon.

  4. Language development - Wikipedia

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    This is the baby's way of practicing his control over that apparatus. Babbling is independent from the language. Deaf children for instance, babble the same way as hearing ones. As the baby grows older, the babbling increases in frequency and starts to sound more like words (around the age of twelve months).

  5. Phonological development - Wikipedia

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    Infants usually produce their first word around 12 –14 months of age. First words are simple in structure and contain the same sounds that were used in late babbling. [32] The lexical items they produce are probably stored as whole words rather than as individual segments that get put together online when uttering them. This is suggested by ...

  6. Language acquisition - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  7. Vocabulary development - Wikipedia

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    Vocabulary development is a process by which people acquire words. Babbling shifts towards meaningful speech as infants grow and produce their first words around the age of one year. In early word learning, infants build their vocabulary slowly. By the age of 18 months, infants can typically produce about 50 words and begin to make word ...

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  9. Talk:Babbling - Wikipedia

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    In the ninth month a baby starts making long series of syllables, such as loo-loo-loo-loo-loo. Pitch and emphasis are also varied. At the same time, the baby starts making series as ah-dee-dah-boo-maa. When a baby makes these kinds of sequences, the first words will be next. [24]