Explain the Progress that Children Make in Developing their Language Acquisition Skills in the First Year of their Lives
It is far from true that language learning begins with the child’s first word utterance. Before the utterance of the first word babies begin to learn about phonemes and intonation patterns i.e. they learn the ‘tune before the words’. They also begin to pick up signals about the social situations in which language works, for example they notice that conversation requires participants to interact cooperatively i.e. taking turns. Babies’ progress in language development covers three areas: Sound production, speech perception and speech interaction, all of which are linked
At the first stage in a baby’s life, around 0
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