Infant Language Development

Infants are more capable to learn new, different languages better than adults. At this age children use their cognitive development to register the phonemes in the language to help build statistics and vocabulary on what they are hearing. When infants are being spoken to, they are constantly processing the words they hear into sounds. Dr. Kuhl has a lot of research and data about what types of technology that is being used to monitor the infant and his/her development that is being processed into words. However, she admits the process is still a mystery (Kuhl, 2004). When sorting out sounds infants hear, it is not noted as to when the baby is actually registering the phoneme for the first time. Throughout the article it does not state how often the baby is actually exposed to the words. Babies are constantly listening and being exposed to frequent words and phonemes, so it does not register with technology. The

Parents and care givers watch with anticipation as infants achieve language milestones. The language process come naturally to infants the more they are exposed to verbal language. It is important for infants to have a healthy diet and routines for the brain development. Sleep is also important when it comes to an infant’s brain development. Before the age of six months, babies are able to understand any and all different types of languages. After the infant is six months old in age, babies are only able to understand words that are spoken in their native language; although, a window of opportunity for language development in babies do occur throughout their entire life. Recent research has proven that babies are able to understand and respond to words 10 week prior to birth. This article has a lot of information for infants, but nothing on toddlers who are using words. Toddlers are also capable to learn new languages, but to what age does it begin to register (Shiver,