Development of Language

Language development is the process where babies learn to understand how to communicate during their early childhood. It starts when a fetus begins to recognize the sounds of speech and speech patterns. Language development is a process that babies learn how to distinguish speech sounds and engage in babbling.

The twins in this video are babbling which is a stage in child development whereby the infants repeat consonants sounds. The babbling sounds like a real conversation taking place with the way pauses are made giving each other the chance to speak. They wait for one to finish babbling and neither of them interrupts the other. The babbling expresses that the twins really understand what the other one is saying and they even have a moment of laughter. Their body movements as they babble, how they stress whatever they are babbling about brings out a picture of a real conversation. There is eye contact involved as the babbling continues which shows the seriousness of the conversation.

They respond to each other using gestures for example when they shake the head which seems like they are emphasizing the conversation. The tone of their voices as they continue babbling creates emotion in the conversation they are having. The rising and lowering of their pitches give a sign that they are debating about something. The rhythm they have in the conversation and knowing when to interject makes it sound like a truly understood language.

The twins babbling communication makes one believe that they are having a real conversation. From their body language, tones and expressions show a real debate happening. They do not interrupt each other when babbling and each one of them knows when to pause for the other one to speak. This shows that language development in babies is fascinating.