Infant Language Development
I do believe that babies learn language from birth. According to the text, there are five different stages that an infant goes through within the first 18 months of live. During the first one to two years of live, infants will reach several important milestones in their language development.
The first stage is called Reflexive. This takes place when infants produce sounds called reflexive sounds as early as 0-2 months (Pence Turnbull & Justice, 2017, p. 129). Although these reflexive sounds are involuntary and often include crying and fussing sounds of discomfort, distress, burping, coughing, and sneezing. These sounds then produce interactions from adults which things like, “Is baby upset?” or “You want mama to hold you, do you?”. …show more content…
Words like “ma ma” are also typical within the fourth stage.
The advanced forms stage takes place when the infant is now 9-18 months old. Diphthongs are two vowel sounds that share the same syllable. The most noticeable portion of this stage include jargon, which is a type of babbling that contains at least two syllables and at least two different consonants (Pence Turnbull and Justice, 2017, p. 132). When an infant says their first words, they are transitioning from preverbal communication to verbal communication, which is an extremely exciting time!
I feel as though an infant is learning to communicate through language from birth and beyond. Infants are listening to the sounds and words around them from day one. This is the beginning of their language journey. Several years ago, I read a very interesting article about studies that have been conducted on infants that were verbally stimulated and compared them to infants who were not verbally stimulated and the results showed that the infants who had more verbal stimulation early in their infancy were much more effective communicator and were more verbal earlier than the infants who did not have a lot of verbal stimulation. As they travel through all five stages, the infant is able to progress into more of a verbal communication, rather than a preverbal communication. Language is a slow and steady process that I believe begins in our infancy and continues to grow during our
The first stage is called Reflexive. This takes place when infants produce sounds called reflexive sounds as early as 0-2 months (Pence Turnbull & Justice, 2017, p. 129). Although these reflexive sounds are involuntary and often include crying and fussing sounds of discomfort, distress, burping, coughing, and sneezing. These sounds then produce interactions from adults which things like, “Is baby upset?” or “You want mama to hold you, do you?”. …show more content…
Words like “ma ma” are also typical within the fourth stage.
The advanced forms stage takes place when the infant is now 9-18 months old. Diphthongs are two vowel sounds that share the same syllable. The most noticeable portion of this stage include jargon, which is a type of babbling that contains at least two syllables and at least two different consonants (Pence Turnbull and Justice, 2017, p. 132). When an infant says their first words, they are transitioning from preverbal communication to verbal communication, which is an extremely exciting time!
I feel as though an infant is learning to communicate through language from birth and beyond. Infants are listening to the sounds and words around them from day one. This is the beginning of their language journey. Several years ago, I read a very interesting article about studies that have been conducted on infants that were verbally stimulated and compared them to infants who were not verbally stimulated and the results showed that the infants who had more verbal stimulation early in their infancy were much more effective communicator and were more verbal earlier than the infants who did not have a lot of verbal stimulation. As they travel through all five stages, the infant is able to progress into more of a verbal communication, rather than a preverbal communication. Language is a slow and steady process that I believe begins in our infancy and continues to grow during our