Infants and very young children are far more cognitive competence than they appear. They possess a rich set of abilities that allow them to learn rapidly
1) The research has provided a lot of important information regarding the nature of child development. When exploring the development of children they are divided in five different age periods. During the infancy period, language development for birth to two months is a range of meaningful noises that only a mother or caregiver understands which is cooing, fussing, crying and as well as laughter.
Language Development in Children
1995, 2015 Daniel Kies. http://papyr.com/hypertextbooks/grammar/lgdev.htm#explaining Crying, Cooing, and Babbling
The most common folk explanation for language development is that children learn by imitating the language they hear around them in their own childish way. However, a quick review of the material presented above will reveal that imitation plays little (or no) role at all. For example, when learning grammatical morphemes, remember, the child overregularizes the endings, producing forms like good-gooder-goodest, putted, taked, etc. Those forms do not occur in the speech heard by children, yet all children go through a stage in which they create them. Imitation can not explain language development. Instead, psychologists and linguists have looked for more adequate.
Out of the Mouths of Babes: Unlocking the Mysteries of Language and Voice
Unlocking the Mysteries of Language and Voice
By Christopher A. Thurber, Ph.D.
My ears have yet not drunk a hundred words
Of thy tongue's uttering, yet I know the sound.
Juliet, from Romeo and Juliet
— by William Shakespeare
http://www.campparents.org/expert/0356thurber3
How do children understand these rules — without explicit teaching — and how do they understand the meaning of words?
At birth, babies show a preference for language over other sounds, and after a few weeks, they can