Language development
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Language development is a process starting early in human life. Infants start without language, yet by 4 months of age, babies can discriminate speech sounds and engage in babbling. Some research has shown that the earliest learning begins in utero when the fetus starts to recognize the sounds and speech patterns of its mother's voice.
Usually, productive language is considered to begin with a stage of preverbal communication in which infants use gestures and vocalizations to make their intents known to others. According to a general principle of development, new forms then take over old functions, so that children learn words to express the same communicative functions which they had already expressed by preverbal means.
See also
- Artificial neural network
- Babbling
- Essay on the Origin of Languages
- Evolutionary linguistics
- Genie (feral child)
- Infantile speech
- Language acquisition
- Language acquisition device
- Language delay
- List of language acquisition researchers
- Mean length of utterance
- Metalinguistic awareness
- Origin of language
- Phonological development
- Pragmatic mapping
- Proto-Human language
- Speech
- Speech delay
- Speech disorder
- Speech sound disorder
- Speech repetition
- Victor of Aveyron
