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When and how do infants learn to talk?
Introduction
The miracle of spontaneous acquisition of language and speech is almost exclusive to infancy and early childhood, and unlikely to reoccur at any other stage of the child’s or adult’s life. From the youngest age, the infant is drawn to the sound of the maternal voice, soothing him into calmness. More recent arguments suggest that the child learns to recognise the tone of his mother’s voice as early as in the womb, and once born, he will then be drawn to her voice. The infant takes joy in the rhythm of those talking around him, he will watch attentively to the movement of the mouth and he learns to love language before he is able to use it. It is this inherent attraction to language and sound that impels the young child to experiment with sounds and master the use of language. The following paper provides a description of how a child learns to talk.
The Process of Learning to Talk
Despite being a spontaneous processes of learning, language and speech acquisition requires attention, practice, exposure and cognitive functioning. For a child to learn to talk he must first be able to produce specific sounds and word related syllables. Furthermore, he must have the motor ability to negotiate the required movement...
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