At the six
months, normal children in all cultures begin to babble, producing long
sequences of vowels and consonants. Babbling resemble adult language in a
number of important respects.
Psycholinguistic
and linguists have concluded that babbling has at least two functions, there
are:
Babbling serves primarily as practice for
later speech. This is intuitively plausible because the fine motor movements
necessary for accurate articulation are exercised extensively during babbling
indeed, babbling children produce a greater variety of sounds.
Children babble for social reward.
According to some psychologists, babbling is the child’s first experienced with
the social character of language. Evidence for the importance of the social
factor in babbling comes from the study of severely neglected children.
According to
one hypothesis, children babble because language development involves a process
of biological maturation. Thus babbling occurs automatically when the relevant
structure in the brain reach a critical level of development.
Source: Dr. Sujoko, MA. Psycholinguistics Module. UNS.
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