How do infants come to understand and produce their first words?

... Andrea K Lait V0049493 ED209: CHILD DEVELOPMENT TMA 05 Option 2 How do infants come to understand and produce their first words? The development of language is one of a child's most natural and impressive undertakings. Our communication skills set us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom, and they're also what bring us together with each other. Babies are born without language, but all children learn the rules of language fairly early on and without formal teaching, how does this happen? In the first years of life, most children learn speech and language, the uniquely human skills they will use to communicate with other people. The developments of speech and language skills are two different, yet linked processes. Speech is producing the sounds that make up words the physical act of talking. Language is the understanding of the words and sounds we hear and also a means of expressing ourselves though the use of

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