Cooing and Babbling

by combining them with vowels, so that you hear sounds like “beeee …”, “maaaaa …”.

Babbling : Between six and ten months, the infant begins to babble. She repeats syllables like ‘ma’, ‘da’, ‘ki’, and ‘ne’ over and over again so that we can hear sounds like “dadada …”, “kikikikiki…”, “mamama….”. This is referred to as babbling. As in the earlier stage, the infant continues to produce new sounds and experimenting with them. In the early stages of babbling, the infant may produce sounds like those in adult speech and it seems as if the baby has learnt some words. For example, when the baby babbles “mamama …” or “bababa …”, the parents feel that