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Canonical Babbling: A Marker for Earlier Identification of Late Detected Developmental Disorders?

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Canonical Babbling: A Marker for Earlier Identification of Late Detected Developmental Disorders?

Sigrun Lang, Katrin D. Bartl-Pokorny, Florian B. Pokorny, Dunia Garrido, Nivedita Mani, Annette V. Fox-Boyer, Dajie Zhang, Peter B. Marschik · 2019 · Current Developmental Disorders Reports

Children
A review of earlier studies
Where
Studies in many languages, including English, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish, German, Mandarin and Cantonese
Ages
Babies in their first year
How
Researchers summarised earlier studies of when babies start babbling
What it found
Says typically developing babies start babbling between about 5 and 10 months, at similar ages across many languages.
Limits
A summary of other studies, not new measurements. Its main focus is babies with particular conditions, which we don't cover.

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