Michael Rosen - Word of mouth - How do children develop language?

• Intonation is key when helping babies to organise what they hear
• children use statistics to recognise where words start and end-syllables and frequency differences
• 0-12 months main language learning stage
• vocabulary comes later
• sensitive to patterns at early stages
• most words have strong-weak pattern
• learning process relies on feedback and hearing themselves speak
• babies play with sounds
• babies recognise language as soon as they are born
• 2nd birthday combining words
• emphasis and repetition