Babbling is a stage in the speech development process.
Babbling is the act and result of babbling . This verb , which in certain conjugations can be used as babbling , refers to pronouncing oneself in a hesitant, uncertain and difficult manner .
When children begin to try to speak , they engage in babbling: “When Juanito started babbling, I didn't understand him at all,” “Mara is so big! "I didn't know he was already babbling," "I think at any moment my nephew will start babbling..."
A person who tries to express himself in a language that he does not master (or pretends to understand) often babbles: “When we arrived in England, I tried to ask where the hotel was with my babbled English, but no one could understand me . ” The young man's babbling, the woman reformulated her question in Italian and then got the answer she was looking for," "In the first classes I could barely do a few babbling, but now I can express myself in Portuguese without problems."
baby babbling
In addition to everything stated above, we have to highlight another series of important aspects regarding baby babbling:
- It is established that it begins to occur between 6 and 7 months of age.
- At first, children are usually able to babble, producing a vowel and a consonant. That is, combining them. This is what is known as canonical babbling .
- However, they can also construct isolated syllables.
- For babbling to take place, it is considered necessary for children to have their parents by their side. And listening to them can encourage them to “cheer up” to try to speak.
It is possible to distinguish several phases in babbling.
Its phases
No less relevant is that you have to know that babbling is made up of several phases, including some that begin before babbling itself:
- Reflex vocalizations , which occur up to 2 months.
- Twitter , which is when the baby learns to say “ago” or “garlic” . It occurs when it is 2 or 3 months old.
- Vocal play , which is identified because they express single vowels or consonants. It can occur when the baby is between 3 and 5 months old.
- Reduplicative babbling , when it begins to combine consonants and vowels. It takes place in the period between 6 and 9 months.
- Non-reduplicative babbling . It starts at 9 months and that means that the first words begin to appear.
Other uses of the term babbling
The guy who is nervous , or who doesn't know what to say, also babbles: “I'm sick of your babbling! Tell me where you were last night or I'll leave here” , “The policeman found the man's babbling suspicious and decided to see what he had in his suitcase” , “I answered the first questions of the exam with babbling, but then I calmed down” .
Stammering, finally, is the first stage or instance of a process : “In the stammering of the revolution we made many mistakes,” “The first stammering of democracy generated great enthusiasm throughout the country,” “The stammering of technological development .” national did not surprise me.”