Infant Development Of Language Essay

The Development of Language from Newborn to Infancy How fast does an infant’s language develop from birth to two years of age? From the moment we are born we hear and see people communicating. Whether it is with expressions, emotions or words newborns pick up on it. The development of language is more important when we are in our infancy than any other age. People go from saying nothing at all to facial expressions, crying to actual words to sentences. Newborns and infants go from being pre-linguistic to linguistic. From crying to actually saying “I sad”. This is the age to learn and retain information, to analyze and comprehend language. When we are born to about twelve months or one year old we are called pre-linguistic. What this means is that we are non-vocal. We use our motor skills, facial expressions, body gestures

An Infant or toddler can use social skills like listening to an excited tone to develop if what’s being said is good or bad, if what is being placed down in front of them is touchable. “From ages one to three, children from highly verbal “professional” families heard nearly three times as many words per week as children from low verbal “welfare” families” (Johnston, 2017). An infant benefits from hearing complex sentence because they themselves will be able to do it. Also earlier in our childhood if we hear more than one input of language we will be more likely to develop our language faster. Children can also have a problem trying to remember the word if they don’t know what the word is or means. A child may recollect the word shoe faster than the word painting. The child has seen and know what the shoe is but may not know or seen what a painting is. If an infant or child is put in a daycare they are with multiple other children throughout the day. This environment can help them. They can learn alongside other children their age and may come to develop