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Sounds made are vegetative, undifferentiated, and made as part of reflexes. Includes crying, burping, sneezing, or coughing
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Babies can understand that specific cooing indicates pleasure or comfort.
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The baby will start making small sounds. Usually a pattern of one consonant (m) and one vowel (a) so they create the sound "Ma"
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The child begins truly babbling (known as true babbling) where they repeat one syllable of a word, followed by consonant-vowel pairs.
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Soon, the baby will start using different types of babbling, like Jargon babbling.
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Baby should be imitating everything around them immediately, called echolalia.
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Congratulations! The baby is now 1 and a half year old! They are using protowords and other types of babbling regularly while also attempting to form full sentences from the 50 words they know.
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As the infant approaches the toddler years, their senses are fully developed.