Reduplication In Babies

By roughly six months, babies go through a period of babbling, in which they start to build and train their mouth muscles and produce different types of sounds moving from vowel to consonant. However, when producing the first word, it's often not easy to reproduce the second syllable. This is what is known as reduplication. For example, "da-da" and "ma-ma" Moreover, one device that children use to express meaning in this stage is the use of intonation with the use of gesture. For example, "a child say dada with the stress on the second syllable with her arms outstretched, like Pick me up, daddy!" (Selinker. L, Gass. S, 2008, p.32) accordingly, they begin to babble as a result of imitating what they hear. In conclusion, by nine months, this