What Is Prelinguistic Vocalizations?

Prelinguistic vocal development is the process by which infants and toddlers produce utterances that are increasingly complex, phonetically diverse, and adult-like before saying words on a consistent basis.

What is Prelinguistic speech?

Pre-linguistic language development is when a child is learning to control the sounds he can produce and to string these sounds together in vocal play. ... Vegetative sounds occur at 0-2 months of age and include the natural sounds that babies make, such as burping or crying. Cooing and laughter occur at 2-5 months of age.

What are Prelinguistic behaviors?

The prelinguistic behavior of infants include: crying at birth, different cries, smiling, cooing, babbling, reduplicated babbling and echolalia, which are assessed in this study.