I looked up babbling in Wikipedia and got this explanation...
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Babbling is a stage in child language acquisition, during which an infant
appears to be experimenting with making the sounds of language, but not yet
producing any recognizable words. Babbling begins around 5 to 7 months of
age, when a baby's noises begin to sound like phonemes. Infants begin to
produce recognizable words usually around 12 months, though babbling may
continue for some time after this.
Human babies engage in babble as a sort of vocal play that does not occur in
any other mammal species. Terrence W. Deacon infers that human infants don't
even need to be particularly excited or even upset to babble because the
fact is that human babies will babble spontaneously and incessantly only
when emotionally calm. Deacon adds, "It is the first sign that human vocal
motor output is at least partially under the control of the cortical motor
system because babbling is basically vocal mimickry that happens in
correspondence to the maturation of the cortical motor output pathways in
the human brain."
Steven Pinker compares a child babbling to a person fiddling with a complex
hi-fi system in an attempt to understand what all the controls do. Most
babbling consists of a small number of sounds, which suggests the child is
preparing the sounds it will need to speak the language it is exposed to.
Infants who are deaf also show vocal babbling, suggesting that early
babbling arises from inherent human tendencies to use the vocabl
articulators in particular ways during early language acquisition. If they
are exposed to sign language, they babble with their hands at approximately
the same time that vocal babbling appears.
At what ages do children begin their journey into the world of language by
babbling? At 0-4 months: Babies gurgle, and coo (vowel sounds such as "oooh"
and "aah"). And at 4-6 months: Babies may start to babble (adding
consonants: "gaga," "dada"). Then comes 6-12 months where: Babies babble and
enjoy vocal play as they experiment with a range of sounds. At 12-18 months
is when: Toddlers begin to use sound in a meaningful way. They say
one-syllable words, make sounds like cars and planes, and say things like,
"uh oh." Toddlers also understand the meaning of some words they cannot yet
say. They may also use one word to represent a whole sentence. For example,
"Juice" may mean, "Mother, I would like some juice;" "You are drinking
juice;" or "Look, there is juice in the cup." By the time they've reached
18-24 months: Toddlers repeat words and are able to link words into short
sentences. They know about 50 words, but can understand many more. They may
use short sentences, such as, "She go bye bye." And "What you doing?" They
may also use familiar words the wrong way. For example, a child with a dog
for a pet may look at other large furry animals and say "doggie". And this
is just one tiny fraction of how the language phenomenon develops; It's no
wonder we are fascinated by the sights and sounds of newborn babies.
Babbling occurs during the first year of life if the child is developing
normally. As the baby grows and changes, his/her vocalizations change as
well. Babies use these vocalizations to communicate. They start out crying,
progress to loud yelling noises, and finally they make speech.
According to Menn and Stoel Gammon in The Development of Language, “This
early period of prelinguistic vocalization can be divided into five stages.”
Stage one is crying, stage two is cooing, stage three is vocal play, and
stage four is canonical babbling (which begins at about six months of age).
The fifth and final stage is conversational babbling (usually demonstrated
by about ten months of age) and it is otherwise known as “jargon.” This
jargon stage is defined as: “Pre-linguistic vocalizations in which infants
use adult like stress and intonation.” (Sroufe, Cooper, & Dehart, 1996, p.
258)
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Is this the meaning you are using in your response? If it is, please explain
in what way my post was like pre-linguistic vocalizations. If it was not,
could you explain the meaning you are communicating.
....Tony
"David Candy" <.> wrote in message
How would anyone here know what you are babbling about.
