Syllable Babbling: 5 months to 8 months
- Begin to play with sounds, rather than using them to
express their physical and emotional states
- Sequence of clicks, hums, glides, trills, hisses and
smacks begin to sound like consonants and vowels
- Begin to practice using their vocal equipment
- ba-ba-ba/ neh, neh, neh/ dee, dee, dee
Gibberish Babbling: 8 months to 1 year
- Vary their syllables like neh-nee, da-dee, and meh, neh
- Continue mastering their vocal equipment
One-word utterances: 1 year to 18 months
- mama/dada
- baby
- allgone
- more
- dog