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For breastfed babies, a very common first word is usually a variation of "ma". For my daughter, her first word after "mama" was her brother's name (Noah). The
by eitally 13y ago
For breastfed babies, a very common first word is usually a variation of "ma". For my daughter, her first word after "mama" was her brother's name (Noah). Then they learned the bottom rung of Maslow's Hierarchy via sign language at school (more, please, thank you, milk, food, mom, dad, child).
<edit> Both of my kids had sudden rapid improvements in speech at some point, too. I can't remember, when, and I know it happened earlier with my daughter than my son, but I still remember the day my son was answering a question and started with "Actually, ..." and then later on, "Even so, ...". He was two. Close together siblings are fantastic teachers!
- DanBC 13y agoChildren learn words, and say them, but then don't bother repeating those words until they've built up a vocabulary of about 200 words. So that's one reason for one of the language-jumps. But it is fascinating. My son has one phrase which he speaks with a local accent, but the rest of his language is different.
- jacalata 13y agoI don't know if they always are. My older nephew spoke 'for' his slightly younger brother a huge amount, which I think probably either exacerbated or masked the younger ones language delays. (I wasn't involved in any of the diagnosis/therapy process so this is just my opinion).