Language Acquisition and Development in Infants

👶 Babies are born with the innate ability to communicate and start developing their language skills even before they can speak.

🤔 Research shows that babies prefer the human voice and are already familiar with language shortly after birth.

🎵 Babies can recognize and respond differently to their native language compared to unfamiliar languages shortly after birth.

👶 Babies can distinguish between different parts of language from an early age.

🗣️ Babies learn to communicate through vocalizing and receiving responses from their caregivers.

😊 Babies can detect and understand emotions conveyed through facial expressions and voice tone.

👶 Babies recognize the importance of eye contact in human communication.

🌍 Babies are born with incredible innate abilities to learn any language but become language specialists linked to a particular culture over time.

🧠 Between 6 and 10 months, a baby's brain starts filtering out sounds from other languages, limiting their ability to distinguish them.

🤔 Researchers investigate whether exposing babies to a second language during this period can alter their ability to distinguish sounds.

🗣️ Babies learn the sounds of language through their caregivers' speech, which is characterized by a sing-song tone and exaggerated words.

👶 Babies babble and practice the sounds of their native language as they develop their language skills.

👇 Pointing is a significant gesture for babies and serves as a form of communication that helps them understand the relationship between objects and people.

👶 Babies learn new words by following pointing gestures and the gaze of the person speaking.

🙌 Imitation plays a crucial role in language learning, even before babies can speak.

🤝 Turn-taking and imitation are fundamental aspects of communication between adults and children.

🔍 Babies interpret facial expressions and gestures as signals of communication.

👶 Children recognize the structure of conversation from a young age.

🗣️ Babies progress from sounds to full word pronunciation by 18 months.

🔁 Language explosion occurs around 18 months to 2 years.

🔑 The form of objects is crucial for children to learn their names.

📚 During the language explosion, children progress from isolated words to two-word phrases.

🗣️ When children start speaking, their inner world becomes visible through their reasoning and problem-solving abilities.