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How Babies Talk is a book written by Roberta Michnick Golinkoff and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek. The book discusses how babies acquire language throughout various stages (The first three years of life) of their infant life. The chapter I chose to elaborate on was chapter 7, which outlines language and grammar between the ages of twenty-four to thirty-six months.

All language theorists acknowledge nature and nurture both play significant roles in children’s language development. However, the theoretical debate to whether nature or nurture is the dominant tool during a child’s language

Each child learns language at their own rate and pace. There can be different factors, such as a child learning multiple languages at once. Most often, with little effort, the child will be able to learn oral language by being in an environment that fosters conversation. Early on, toddlers will begin to make

It is believed that babies develop language when they are in the utero and it continues throughout their lifetime. By twelve weeks old, babies may register the sounds they can hear and at the same time make basic visual, auditory and tactile mind maps (Karen Kearns, 2013, P.105). This allows the infant to turn towards any familiar sounds and noises. Babies begin to communicate with people around them quite quickly. By two months old, babies begin to make ‘cooing’ and other noises; this indicates the phonological component of language development. By six to nine months babies begin to experience with a mixture of sounds, and often you will hear a baby babbling. Babbling development is similar across many different languages and even hearing impaired babies will go through this stage. They may copy the sounds they are introduced too or beginning to recognize familiar

Communication development 0-3 years listening to parents and practitioner and starting to recognise their name by 1 and half they should be able to say mama dada ect and start to join in with rhymes such as twinkle twinkle little star. At the age of 3 they should be able to say at least 200 words. If the child has a speech problem then we use 100 words pictures and sign language to see what they know.

At children start to join word e.g. “mummy gone” “my toy” and at 3/4 generally children’s speech is understandable and children are starting to form sentences. Children can communicate feelings and emotions.

The debate between many researchers is the argument of whether nature or nurture play a more important role in development. In this essay I will be looking into both aspects of nature and nurture focusing specifically on their influence towards language development in children. A main controversial question I will be looking into is the question of whether are we born already equipped with mechanisms which help us to learn language, or is language learned throughout a child’s environment by, for example, imitation and repetition? Studies done by some opposing researchers claim to show that nature and nurture promote language development

Babies learn to talk by hearing language and having language directed at them in "conversation." Between 6-12 months, babies begin to fine-tune

Language development is related to this stage because language learning starts at birth. They listen to the speech of those close to them, and startle or cry if there is an unexpected noise.

Although children learn to make noises and babble on their own, their parents actually help them sort out sounds and meanings to specific words. For example, mothers try and get their children to say “momma” so they repeat it over and over again until it is said. Then as the children grow older they learn the meaning behind the word. Babies do not come out of the womb understanding language; they grow up hearing and learning it from the people around them. There are critical periods in a child’s life where there is limited time that the child is biologically prepared to acquire certain adaptive behaviors (Berk, 2012).

The first stage is the pre-linguistic/prattle stage and this stage lasts for much of the child’s first year.

| Babbling happens between 4-6 months of age. During this stage, the constant, vowel combination comes into play. As the child gets

According to Tamekia Reece of Parents Magazine, most babies begin speaking their first words at around 6 months. Full sentences generally begin within 18 to 24 months of life. I, however, did not meet this deadline so to speak. I did not mutter my first words until I was almost four.

The nature – nurture debate can be asked in two questions. First, do children learn and acquire language through a prewired section that’s built into their brains from birth? Or secondly, do children learn language through the participation in their environment? (Berk, 2013, p. 359) Language is an important skill that children acquire, as it’s the key to communicating, learning and thinking. Children will develop in all developmental areas through play experiences, observing, interacting with others while mimicking some of these actions, this refers to how phonology is such an important component of language development. Phonology is the way in which

As a child develops along their journey to acquire language, they go through several steps, of which all are crucial to the successful mastering of their native tongue. There is debate over whether the period of acquisition known as babbling is the first or second stage – Berk (1991) mentions that they class babbling as the first stage, but note that there is a previous stage before that, known as the ‘cooing’ stage; following this, this essay will refer to babbling as the second stage of language acquisition. To introduce a general overview of this particular stage, Berk (1991) explains that cooing usually develops into babbling at around 6