CLA Stages of Development Theories: Babbling

Question 1

Petitto and Holowka (2002)

Babbling

Answer 1

• Videoed infants and noted that most babbling came from the right side of the mouth which is controlled by the left side of the brain.
• The left side of brain is responsible for speech production
• Their findings suggest that babbling is a form of preliminary speech.

Question 2

Desmond Morris (2008)

Babbling

Answer 2

• For the first 6 months, a baby will gurgle and babble the same regardless of the baby’s nationality or how much parental input the child had had.
• Deaf children will also create the same sounds.
• By 6 months and beyond, the child will be increasingly attuned to variations in language being used around them and the babbling will start to resemble this more closely.