After being born, Baobao knows nothing but how to breastfeed, so in the later period, the baby will gradually learn everything through observation and listening. After one year old, they will learn to speak, although it is not very fluent. Do you know the characteristics of infant language development? Next, let's take a look together.
Characteristics of Infant Language Development
The age range of 1 to 1.5 years old is a "passive" period of speech activity, characterized by listening more, speaking less, understanding more, and expressing less. The language characteristics of children during this period are: using words to represent sentences, having multiple meanings, overlapping pronunciations, using phonetic pronouns, and accompanied by actions and expressions. When it comes to the word 'mom', it represents a sentence, which may be 'mom to hold', 'mom not to leave', or 'mom to give me toys', and may have multiple different meanings. Some words are too difficult to pronounce, and children often use pronouns and overlapping pronunciations.
Due to the limited vocabulary of children, they often supplement their language deficiencies with actions. If you want to wear a hat and go out to play, you will say "hat hat" and pat your head, pointing to the door. During this period, children's language development can generally master around 100 words, but there is a significant gap between them, with some reaching around 200 words and others only able to speak a few words.
Children who speak less are not necessarily lagging behind in language development. Often, it is because these children speak late, but they are able to store what they hear in their brains and will suddenly speak in the future. They are very talkative and their vocabulary increases rapidly, even surpassing some children who speak early and frequently in a short period of time.
What are the stages of language learning for babies
（1） Learning to Listen: Learning to Listen is the stage where babies receive information. Method: After birth, babies listen to a large number of simple and complex sentences. At this stage, babies need to be provided with a wealth of visual and auditory stimulation training, such as telling stories, nursery rhymes, saying whatever they see, telling what they are doing, and combining the language in their minds with daily life to stimulate their brains, laying the foundation for their future development.
（2） Learning to Speak: Learning to speak is the stage for babies to express information. Method: The baby's vocal organs are gradually maturing, producing single and double sounds. At this stage, family members who live with the baby should pay attention to speaking in standardized sentences and sentence structures, talk to the baby more, read aloud to the baby, sing nursery rhymes repeatedly to the baby, tell stories, go out to teach the baby what they see, and learn various things about their parents.
（3） Learning to recognize characters: Learning to recognize characters is the stage when babies receive information. Method: Cultivate babies' awareness of reading ability and read more books. While reading, parents or other family members can tell babies what they are talking about and what words and phrases in the book can tell us. Help babies pay attention to the shape of words. When babies ask questions actively, parents should patiently explain to them and let them think and explore more.
The above is a brief introduction to the characteristics of infant language development and the stages of infant language learning. So when babies first start speaking, it depends on whether their parents can understand the meaning they want to express, after all, most of the time one word has multiple meanings. That's all the content that the editor wants to share with you.
