Baby Talk Help???
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Topic: Baby Talk Help???
Posted By: Lissy
Subject: Baby Talk Help???
Date Posted: 01 July 2007 at 9:37am
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For your mum's or Dad's with older children.... When did you baby start to talk? What did your baby say? What did you class as talking? Thanks for your help ------------- Harlan Drew DOB: 06.12.06 & Stepmum to Ethan & Christian, DOB: 25.02.99 |
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 01 July 2007 at 10:40am
Maya started making recognisable sounds about 7 months, saying Da-da etc. but I didn't really consider it talking till about 9 months when she would say Mama very deliberately. By about 15-16 months she was putting two words together, her first two word sentence was "peck-nose" from the nursery rhyme about the blackbird that came and pecked off the King's nose, closely followed by Spongebob-Squarepants 
Mercedes has said Mama a couple of times, and Dada once that we've heard and thought she knew what she was saying coz she was reaching out for us, but other than that just a constant stream of nonsensical babble. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: mamanee
Date Posted: 01 July 2007 at 12:22pm
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Sam can say 'no' and 'okay' and 'baa' and 'ooooo'.
But he doesn't mean to. 
I can't wait for him to start talking! Even now, every little noise he makes is like 'OOOOO, he made a talking noise!!' |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 01 July 2007 at 1:43pm
| I consider it talking when they make the noisee deliberately to mean something. Taine has been doing it for a while - says "hi da" quite definitely and has just started "thank you" first word was duck I'm pretty sure. |
Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 01 July 2007 at 2:31pm
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Hannah started saying "Uh-oh" first, which usually involved dropping food off her high chair (after saying it!)... not sure exactly, maybe around 10 months???
She started saying "thank you" (no "Ta" in this house!) and "hello" after that... but hasn't been a huge talker until now. |
Posted By: Katherine
Date Posted: 01 July 2007 at 11:01pm
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Emma Rose has just started talking recently (since about 14.5 months) -- her first word was "Dada", and now she says "Hi", "Dada", "Baba" (bottle) and "Noo" (the dog, whose name is Noodle). I've read that "Dada" is the most popular choice for a first word! When babies are learning to talk, they'll often babble endless streams of sounds that don't sound like anything to us, but from time to time they'll throw in semi-recognisable words like "Dada" and similar. Emma Rose babbles away constantly now (she didn't for a long time, but now that her ears seem clear of all the lovely infections she's had, her speech is really improving) and if you're hearing her but not listening for words, it sounds just like adult speech -- similar cadences, "sentence structure", questions and answers, etc. I'd call it speaking when they are looking at you or a toy or the dog and babbling away, but not necessarily saying words you recognise. I think that the INTENT of speech is what's important in the beginning -- that they are using their voices to communicate and realising that is what voices do. You can usually tell when this is happening because they will watch your mouth and make noises while looking at you -- they are starting to realise where their (and your) voices come from. They also imitate you (Em loves to say "Ah....BA!" over and over with me) and will look at you and babble away. So even when Em is babbling to the dog and I don't hear any of the four words she uses, I still think of it as "talking" because she's exploring language in her own little way. |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 01 July 2007 at 11:06pm
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dada is often the most common because it is phonetically easier to form in the mouth.
my favourite is when they babble, but they have clear intonation and pitch. taine "talks" on the telephone - or remote - or something that vaguely looks like a phone. "sfgkjhga? ahhhh! hahah! uh oh. asfkjhdfg?" |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 02 July 2007 at 9:45am
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My girls have said the odd word from about 10mos+, names of us and names of favourite foods come first LOL. Briona is almost 2, she is starting to say 3 word sentences such as "cake - all gone" and "please Nona - bibbit" (Please for Briona, a biscuit). Hannah.... doesn't stop talking! ------------- |