"Toward the end of the first year, infants use patterns of rising and falling intonation that resemble the sounds of adult speech."
<em>Intonation</em> is the way the pitch of the voice goes up and down as you speak.
Reproducing adult intonations is one of the ways young children pick up the speech patterns in the language which is spoken at home, even before they know how to formulate sentences. It is the result of the imprint of their parents' speech on their memory. Therefore, when the child then prattles using this intonation, it may sound like they are babbling in their parents' language.
Answer:
<em>Unconscious wish fulfillment theory.</em>
Explanation:
According to the unconscious wish fulfillment hypothesis of Sigmund Freud, the dreams are the manifestation of the unconscious desires and aspirations of the person that they are unable to accomplish in their real life or that they think they would never have (Freud, 1961)
