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Student Name: David Jung
During the babbling stage of development (happens at around three to nine months of age), babies start to produce articulate sounds instead of just noise. Although these sounds are not words, they are at first vowels like aaaaa or ooooo, and later on also consonants like baaaaaaa or maaaaa, etc. Babbling is therefore known as the first stage of language acquisition and development. Although the words do not have any meaning whatsoever, babies are starting to vocalize and adjust their tones, etc in their development of language. Through the babbling stage of development, babies continue to vocalize and improve their language abilities, from crying, to cooing, to saying random vowels, and finally by the last stage talking in what is known as baby language; further development leads to the next stage of finally being able to speak single words like mama or papa, to two words that consists of a subject and verb, etc.



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"What Is Babbling?" //Playing With Words 365 //. Web. 4 Feb. 2015.

COMMENT Great job David! I liked how you gave a summary of what happens during the babbling stage, but you could have added a few pieces of info in your answer. Firstly, it would be nice to know when the babbling stage occurs in language development which happens during the ages of 4-6 months. Lastly, you could have said how babies use babbling to get what they want or don't want. In addition, a baby that is the babbling stage can also produce "urgent" noises to get your attention. Thanks for the answer David.

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