5- Babbling

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Babbling: (6 – 8 months)

# It is a stage which comes after the stage of cooing and it is usually starts at the age of 6 months.

# Babbling is strings of consonants, vowels, syllables and clusters produced by infants.

# This stage is the first indication that the infant is really learning the sounds of its mother tongue.

Types of babbling:

Marginal babbling: (6 months):

It is an early stage similar to cooing where an infant produce a few random sounds.

Canonical babbling:

It is a stage which starts around the age of 8 months.

At this stage, the child starts to produce syllables which are similar his caretakers.

# at this stage, infants can produce consonants other than those of their mother tongues. They are able to produce consonants found in different languages. This means that a 6 months old English infants can babble a letter not found in English, the same infant might find it very difficult to produce it 20 years later.

# babbling is the first stage in psycholinguistics where infants are influenced by the expose to their mother tongue.

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