Cognitive and Communication Development:
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0-2 months-non distress "cooing" or "gooing"
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3-4 months-vocalizes in response to the speech of others
-attentive for longer periods -visually discriminate -sustained laughter |
5-6 month-CV and VC syllables replace single phonemes
-imitation |
7-8 months
-labial sounds
-can produce at least three clearly recognizable vowels: “ee”, “ou”, “ah” -reduplicated babbling -stops, nasals, and approxomants -jargon -begins to understand one or two single words |
9-12 months
-intentionality
-usez both prosodic and phonotactic clues to discern individual speech sounds |
12+ months-children understand words based on a combination of sound, nonlinguistic and paralinguistic cues, and context
-first word |