To learn more about early 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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- Categorization
- grouping together the same sounds, and distinguishing them from other sounds
- Phoneme
- the smallest unit of speech (a sound)
- Sensitive period
- a time in development when the brain is especially ready to learn a skill
- Speech perception
- listening to speech
- Speech production
- speaking
- Statistical learning
- computing how likely it is that certain events (in this case sounds or syllables) occur compared to others