Cooing and Babbling

development of an emotional bond between the caregiver and the infant.

As the child grows, she spends more time awake and practises sounds. She delights in producing new sounds And repeats them. She experiments by varying the pitch and loudness of sounds. The infant seems to be exploring the possibilities of combining sounds. This experimentation is a very important stage in acquiring language since it gives the infant an opportunity to perfect sounds. The child first produces and practises the vowel sounds, (i.e. a, i, e, o, u) so that you can hear sound like, “aaa …”, “…. iiii …”. Then she practises consonant sounds like p, t,’b, m, d