Video Examples of Baby-Toddler Noises, and Speech 24-60 Months
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Vegetative Sounds
Vegetative sounds relate to bodily functions: digestion, excretion and respiration. The sounds include burps, coughs, hiccups, sneezes, gulps, grunts, etc.
Fixed signals
Fixed signals are recurring motor sequences that do not vary across individuals (or languages: a giggle will never sound as though the giggler speaks a particular language). Fixed signals include laughs, giggles, cries, and moans, etc.
Protophones
The purpose of protophones varies. They can be "just for fun", to attract attention, etc. Protophones are speech-like, but not "transcribable"; that is, they cannot be written down using phonetic symbols (IPA | Extended IPA for transcribing disordered speech). Protophones include quasivowels (vowel-like sounds produced with the vocal tract at rest) and marginal babbling (sometimes called pre-canonical babbling). It is similar to cooing where the infant produces a few random sounds.
12 months: Typical development
Resonant Productions
Fully resonant productions are "transcribable"; that is, they can be written down using phonetic symbols (IPA | Extended IPA for transcribing disordered speech). Resonant productions include fully resonant vowels, resonant consonants, canonical babbling and true words.
14 months: Typical development
Canonical Babbling: Typical development
Variegated Babbling: Typical development
Speech
"Speech" can include meaningful speech (real words) or non-words (made-up words)
24 months made-up words: Typical development
30 months: Typical development
37 months: children talking to each other on the phone: Typical development
48 months: telling a story (1): Typical development
48 months: telling a story (2): Typical development
60 months: A 5-year-old asks Siri a series of questions: Typical development
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Typical speech and language development in infants and young children
Citation
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References
Bowen, C. (2015). Children's Speech Sound Disorders (2nd ed.). Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, page 82.
Oller, K. D., Eilers, R. E., Neal, R. & Schwartz (2019). Precursors to speech in infancy: The prediction of speech and language disorders. Journal of Communication Disorders, 32(4), 223-245.
Ramsdell, H. L., Oller, D. K., & Ethington, C. A. (2007). Predicting phonetic transcription agreement: insights from research in infant vocalizations. Clinical linguistics & phonetics, 21(10), 793–831.