To learn more about language development, take a look at these resources:
Parenting Counts | Developmental Timeline: Communication
TED | Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies
ZERO TO THREE | Early Literacy
ZERO TO THREE | Language and Communication
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- Back-and-forth or contingent interactions
- exchanges where a caregiver times her responses to a child’s behavior
- Canonical babbling
- producing the same consonant and vowel over and over, such as dadada
- Infant-directed speech
- a special tone and style of speech used to talk to young children. It’s also called parentese
- Joint attention
- shared attention between social partners to an object or event
- Overextension
- using a word to describe more object categories than it actually represents
- Underextension
- failing to extend a word to other objects in the same category
- Vocabulary spurt
- rapid growth in word learning