Describe a young child's language development from his or her use of crying to gain attention at one month to his or her use of telegraphic speech

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Answer 1

Answer will include that babies can cry from birth on, but at one month, they use crying to gain attention with parents being able to tell from the tone of crying whether the infant is hungry, angry, or in pain. Around six to eight weeks of age, babies begin cooing, which is the repetition of vowel sounds, such as "oo" and "ah.". By seven months, the child can babble. In the babbling stage, the consonants b, d, m, and g are combined with the vowel sounds to produce meaningless language sounds. At first, babbling is the same around the world. But soon, the language spoken by the parents has an influence. That is, Japanese babies babble Japanese sounds and French babies babble French sounds because these are the sounds that they hear and are reinforced by the parents for making. At about one year, children respond to real words, such as no or hi. Soon afterward, the first connection between words and objects forms, and children may address their parents as "Mama" and "Dada.". By age 18 months to two years, the child's vocabulary may include from 24 to 200 words. At first, there is a single-word stage, during which children use one word at a time, such as "go," "juice," or "up.". Soon after, words are arranged in simple two-word sentences called telegraphic speech: "Want-Teddy," and "Mama-gone.".