What does a newborn baby listen to? Maybe we thought he didn't understand anything. In fact, we are wrong, this just came to the world of small children's ability to distinguish speech has greatly exceeded our expectations. Moreover, in the following year, the development of the villain will be even more surprising: in a language rich environment, he will deal with the surrounding adults, constantly familiar with the surrounding environment in various speech, more and more acutely distinguish the details of these voices, and gradually issued a voice like these voices, began to understand the voice of information.
Step 1: Identify the human voice.
Newborn babies have been able to distinguish human speech from other sounds. When you talk to him, he will open his eyes, stare at you, and sometimes even make their own voice!
Step Two: identify the mother's voice.
3 days after birth, the baby has been able to recognize the voice of the mother! And it is very clear that he prefers the voice of his mother.
Step 3: distinguish words with different accents.
A few days after birth, the baby has been able to distinguish between different stress patterns, such as knowing that “mom hug” and “hold mom” is different. This sensitivity to pitch is very important for children to learn the language.
Step 4: start to distinguish different consonants.
A month-old baby has been able to distinguish ba and da as adults, and he already knows that“dad” and“big” are not the same.
Step 5: know a sound whether the pitch is high or low, the sound is big or small, or the same tone.
Two months after birth, the baby has a new skill: whether you say a to him with a vigorous tenor, or say "a" to him with a soft mezzo-soprano, he will know that it is “a”.
Step 6: divide words into phrases and even words.
6 months after the baby, if the mother said to him baby we eat, he can hear baby” is thing, “we eat” is another thing, even know that “we”, “eat”, “ the “ can be separated. Isn't he Great?
Step 7: know the pronunciation patterns of words in native speakers.
After 9 months, the baby already knows that what tone is a word and what tone is not a word. You say“Nirvana” to him, he will be very confused: Are you saying the words? And if you say to him, “the baby is sleeping, “he will know that it is a word, and know that “the baby” is a sound that can be independent, “sleep” and” the “ is also a sound that can be independent.
After the baby can put a word into a word, he will easily understand the meaning of each word. This is a very important step for the baby to learn words.
Step 1: cry.
At the beginning, the baby will only cry! Later on, some babies may be able to laugh out loud. Cry and laugh, is the earliest baby will send a signal. But he soon made progress.
The second step: “oh oh”.
From 2 months old, the baby will sound vowel-like. In his satiate, spirit is very good, a good mood, he will“Oh Ah” to Express it.
The third step: “bar it Tatta”
Baby grow to 4 ~ 6 months later, not only can omit vowels, consonants can also be added to the issue of similar voice sound. Sometimes he mumbles, don't get me wrong, he's not calling“mom and dad.”
Step 4: intonation vocabulary.
8 ~ 9 months of the baby, babbling all day. This time, the sound of the baby, has been clearly with a unique tone in the mother tongue. For example: French children speak softer, vowel pulled longer, talking like singing or like a small river of water; Egyptian children will increase the first letter of the syllable pronunciation; Cantonese-speaking children, will suddenly end the syllable. That is, before the baby can say the real word, already know the intonation of the word, and learn to use the” intonation vocabulary “ to express their meaning.
The fifth step: dialogue with mom.
Six months before the baby, if his mother spoke to him. But seven months later, he learned to be silent when his mother spoke, waiting for his mother's words to stop, he began to “oh ah ah“, more like and mom” dialogue”. It seems that the baby seems to know the rules of the conversation:you don't say when someone is talking, you have a chance to say it later.
The sixth step: “baby talk” speech.
By the time she was 1, the baby was starting to speak out. You see him there looking at you earnestly, babbling and uttering a string of listen to the like “words”, small hands also have a variety of gestures, the posture seems to indicate: I speak, do not understand? That's your problem!