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Author: Sir Frederick
Date: May 23, 2008 18:34
...s hand and place it on the object they want to manipulate. As well as gesturing, pre-linguistic infants babble, and it turns out they are not alone in this either - dolphins, and even songbirds, do it too. At about five months babies start to make their first speech sounds, which some researchers believe contain a random selection of all the phonemes humans can produce. But as children learn ...
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