Question

As baby Michael plays in his crib, his parents overhear him making repetitive sounds such as "babababa" and "dadadada." This repeating of syllables is called___________.

Answer 1

Answer:

babbling.

Explanation:

Precursor to language development babbling is a stage of child development when children produce speech sounds arranged in nonsensical combinations for example "deedeedee". Babbling is ascribed to the sixth month of children and is the next stage of cooing in which children produced the sound of vowels like "aaa", "oooo" etc.

Answer 2

Answer: This repeating of syllables is called BABBLING.

Explanation: Babbling is a stage in the development of language in Children in which a child appears to be demonstrating with sounds by producing uttering sounds of language without any recognizable words.

This starts a little while after the birth of a child and passes through several stages until the child utterance become speech like.

Babbling can be seen as a forerunner to the development of language.