Ty said his first reduplicated babbling sound tonight!! This is very exciting for me, as I document his speech milestones. He said "dada".....obviously we repeated "Dada" as if he meant to say "Daddy"....attaching meaning to sounds for him to help him learn language. This usually happens between 25-50 weeks...but Ty is 19 weeks today!! Unfortunately, I wasn't able to catch it on video...but hopefully soon!
For those of you that might not know what reduplicated babbling is:
During the period 25–50 weeks after birth, all typically developing infants go through a stage of reduplicated or canonical babbling (Stark 198, Oller, 1980). Canonical babbling is characterized by repetition of identical or nearly identical consonant vowel combinations, such as 'nanana' or 'didididi'. It appears as a progression of language development as infants experiment with their vocal apparatus and home in on the sounds used in their native language. Canonical/reduplicated babbling also appears at a time when general rhythmic behavior, such as rhythmic hand banging and rhythmic kicking, appear. Canonical babbling is distinguished from earlier syllabic and vocal play, which has less of a structure.
Yeah speech milestones!!!! Go Ty!!!!
ReplyDeletego Tyler! and i'm glad i read this because Eve has been banging her hands over and over again, and Jason and i were a little weirded out by it. it's nice to know it's normal, haha!!
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