Baby Born Talking- Describes Heaven
- All infants come into the world with linguistic skills.
- Babies continue to learn the sounds of their language throughout the first year.
*1-2 months – cries, grunts, sighs, clicks, stops, and pops
*3-5 months – coos and laughs added
*5-7 months – play with sounds
*begin to sound like consonants and vowels
*7-8 months – babble in real syllables
*sounds are the same in all languages
- By listening to their own babbling, babies write their own instruction manual for language
- Shortly before first birthday, babies begin to understand words and produce them.
- 18 months – syntax begins
*minimum 2-word sentences
*95% of words are properly ordered
- Children understand syntax before putting words together.
- Between the late twos and mid-threes, language blooms into grammatical conversations.
*sentence length increases steadily
*number of syntactic types increases exponentially, doubling every month, reaching thousands before the third birthday
- 3 year olds – using function words in more than 90% of the sentences that require them
- Errors follow the logic of grammar.
- Children who grow up without exposure to language are mute.
- Exposure to Motherese helps children acquire language.
*slower
*exaggerated
*directed to here and now
*more grammatical
*interpretable melodies
- Human infants may be expelled from the womb before their brains are complete.
*If babies stayed in womb for the proportion of their life cycle based on other primates, they would be 18 months old when they are born, which is the age babies begin to put words together.
- Before birth all neurons are formed.
- Head size, brain weight, and thickness of cerebral cortex continue to increase rapidly in the year after birth.
- Long distance connections are not complete until 9 months and continue to grow throughout childhood.
- Acquisition of normal language is guaranteed up to age 6 years.
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