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From Crying To Talking - For Parents - Understanding baby languageBY: Ms Royce | Category: Education | Post Date: 2008-06-22
Right from birth, a child has a multitude of ways to communicate. Through such nonverbal means as facial expressions, eye contact and body gestures, babies only hours old begin to "teach" their parents and caregivers when and how they want to be held, fed, and played with. As early as the late 1800s, Charles Darwin proposed that most emotional expressions, such as smiles, frowns, and looks of disgust, are universal and innate. Children who are born blind and deaf exhibit the same facial expressions for emotions as sighted and hearing children. In addition to nonverbal communication, children also communicate verbally. The pre-linguistic stage begins with a newborn baby's reflexive cry. Within a short time, crying becomes more purposeful. At least three distinctive patterns of crying have been identified. They are hunger, anger and pain. Some parents and child care texts suggest that each of these cries can be easily identified and responded to by the primary caregivers. However, most parents find that they must learn, through a process of trial and error, what each cry means and what actions will satisfy their child. At about 2 to 3 months, babies begin cooing, producing a vowel-like sound. Then around 4 to 6 months, they start babbling, adding consonants to their vowels such as ("bahbahbah" and "dahdahdah".) Some parents mark babbling as the beginning of language and consider their child's vocalizations as "words". They do this despite the fact that the child typically does not associate a "word" with a specific object or person, and all children babble in the same fashion. The true linguistic stage begins toward the end of the first year of life. The babbling begins to sound more like the language of the child's home and the child seems to understand that sound is related to meaning. At the beginning of the linguistic stage, the child is generally limited to a single-utterance vocabulary such as "mama", "go," "juice," or "up." Children manage to get a lot of mileage our of these singular utterances. "Mama" can be used to mean, "I want you to come get me," "I'm hurt," and "I don't like this stranger." However, their expressive ability more than doubles once they begin to join words into short phrases such as "Go bye-bye," "Daddy, milk," and "No night-night!" At this age, children occasionally overextend the words they use. Over extension is using words to include objects that do no fit the word's meaning. For example, having learned the word doggie, a child often overextends the word to include all small, furry animals (e.g., kittens, bunnies). Around age 2, most children are creating short but intelligible sentences by linking several words. However, they leave out nonessential connecting words such as "Me want cookie," "Grandma go bye-bye?" This pattern is called telegraphic speech. Like telegrams of days gone by, a two-year old's speech includes only words directly relevant to meaning, and nothing more. Children increase their vocabulary at a phenomenal rate during these early years. They also acquire a wide variety of rules for grammar, such as adding -ed to indicate the past tense and -s to form plurals. They occasionally make mistakes, however, because they overgeneralize, or overuse the basic rules of grammar. This results in novel constructions like "I go'ed to the zoo" and "Two mans." In conculsion to this article, children by the age of 5, have mastered the basic rules of grammar and typically use about 2000 words. Past this point, our vocabulary and grammar acquisitions continue to improve throughout our entire life span. Article Source: http://www.saching.com About Author / Additional Info: My name is Royce. I would like the opportunity to network with you if possible. I don't claim to be an internet guru. I just try many things after I do my due-diligence. I am focused on building my classified ads website at: http://www.royceclassifiedads.com I enjoy writing articles especially if I can help someone with my writing. Additional Articles: * The importance of SEO for a website * What are the ingredients of a Positive Attitude? * Lightweight Hiking Shoes - Selecting your hiking equipment * Politics and corruption in India * Religion and Spirituality: Where the world has not been broken up.. Does this article violate or infringe on your copyright ? It is a violation of our terms for authors to submit content which they did not write and claim it as their own. If this article infringes on your copyrights, then use our Contact us form with the detailed proof of infringement along with the offending article's title, URL and writer name. If you do not hear back from us then contact us again in another 10 days. Thank you. Comments on this article: (0 comments so far) * Additional comments are now closed for this article *
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