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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.

He then begins to speak words and use his voice in a different way to get attention. In doing this, the baby knew that he had to change his way of communication. This is where another class concept comes in, that of the communication accommodation theory. In the same Harris and Gonzalez article from 2015, it states that, “people have a tendency to adjust their communication styles according to how they perceive and interpret their interlocutors’ speech.” (Harris and Gonzalez 2015, page 34) This essentially means that in terms of the book, the baby knew that he had to change his communication style in order to be more compatible with the receivers of his message. When he began to use words such as, “mom” and “dad” this allowed the parents to have a better insight into his needs, something that the baby knew that they were not understanding completely

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

The communication with your child starts way before the youngster can speak. From their cry, smile, and the responses they give you to help you understand his or her needs. Language developments have different stages that children pass through to assist them in the development of speech and languages. There are a plethora of factors which can inhabitants’ a child language development. However, these are amongst the top causes for language development such as a child’s inborn ability to learn language and the language the child hears.

Three practices that support the language development of all children is that of “communicating and Sharing” (Lally, 2006, p.32) in which a caregiver is observant of the infant and follows the infant's cues in that “Babies show us from the beginning that soothing words and lullabies can calm them.” (Lally, 2006, p.32) thus forming a bond of communicating what the infant's emotions are and sharing them in their reaction to a caregiver.

I am a firm believer in the idea that everything we learn, see, touch and experience can have a lasting effect on us. For my controversy paper I will be discussing how infants develop their language or communication skills from the way their parents talk to them. While talking to a baby who may not be able to talk yet or does not even seem to be responding to you may seem silly. But it actually has a lasting effect on their language development. Even from when they are so small something as simple as talking to them can make a difference in their lives. Parents need to talk to babies as soon as possible because it can make such a difference in their development. I strongly believe and my view is for the more interaction with infants. They need it to grow and develop into the best possible version of yourself. All though infants are usually known for not speaking, they do participate in communication in their own way. They do this hearing, gazing, babbling, looking and smiling through their auditory and visual senses.A newborn infant primary way of communication is by the turn of it head when hearing sounds. The voice of the child’s mother that they remember from the womb or the caregiver would get the most responsive communicational feedback.Which is why it is essential for parents to take time to communicate with their children even if their babies. This controversy is basically how the more parents speak to their infants it seems to correlate with how much vocabulary

Fallows begins her article by recounting a walk she took with her grandson, immediately making herself both relatable and personally involved in the subject matter. She explains how she noticed all of the other parents using their phones rather than interacting with their babies. Due to the fact that Fallows is a linguist, she began to wonder about the impact that interacting with your phone rather than your child has on their speech development. Once she began to research the subject she found a study published in the Pediatrics journal and two studies published in the

When you are sensitive to your childs' level of conversation and support that level with your responsive language, your child will feel comfortable about talking with you and will develop her language skills to the maximum of her ability. She will also find it easier to communicate - to listen, to understand and to respond. All of this will build her language on a day to day basis while establishing a positive and nurturing

As soon as a fetus develops the ability to hear, they react to sounds. Golinkoff and Hirsh-Pasek point out that to an infant, language is like a melody at first. This analogy made me think of a songwriter hearing a melody, then writing the lyrics. Since a baby in utero obviously cannot speak, they’re hearing all the words being spoken out in the world in their minds before they can articulate

They learn words while playing with other children, unlike in Western cultures where verbal skills become highly developed in one to one relationships between the caregiver and child with lots of encouragement is given (Mead et al., n.d.). Parents in Western cultures constantly talk to their children so they can hear all the different words and start getting their brain to process the words and, later, saying words. Parents often say to their infants, “Say Mama” or “Say Dada”, because that is what they want their child’s first words to be. Parents, caregivers, family members, pretty much everyone, encourage infants in Western cultures when they babble and try to say words, because talking is a big milestone for children.

As infants listen to spoken language, babbling expands to include a broader range of sounds (Berk 176) this is why it is important to be an active communicator towards your child at an early age, which they respond to with eye contact. As children acquire language that part of the cortex develops because it is constantly absorbing information. Having verbal stimulation usually leads to children developing a larger vocabulary. Simple things like nursery rhymes, hand games like patty cake, and singing your ABC’s are all good way to promote language

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

Both parents and caregivers are responsible for developing an infant’s conversational skills. This is usually done through routinized activities known as joint action. Joint actions according to Owens (2012, p. 139), “provide a structure within which language can be analyzed”. These routinized activities can be anything from daily routines and game playing (Owens, 012, p. 139).

As babies they begin with cooing at about 6 weeks and then move onto babbling at about 6 months. At about 9 months this progresses so you can begin to differentiate different languages and children begin to interact with adults. During these stages we use exaggerated facial expressions and point to things and begin to use simple words to label things. We simplify our language to suit their needs. At about 12 months babies start using words and by 18 months have about 10 words or so. As they move

Fallows begins her article by recounting a walk she took with her grandson, immediately making herself both relatable and personally involved in the subject matter. She explains how she noticed all of the others parents using their phones rather than interacting with their babies. Due to the fact that Fallows is a linguist she began to wonder about the impact that interacting with your phone rather than your child has on their speech development. Once she began to research the subject she found a study done published in the Pediatrics journal and two studies published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.