The Development of Language and Communication from Infancy to Preschool
510: Early Childhood Development
Cleveland State University

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine how language and communication develop in early childhood, from in uerto through preschool. And how language is the expression of human communication through which knowledge, belief, and behaviors’ develop, and experiences are explained and shared. Other areas to be examined is the developmental milestones functional skills that are age specific tasks that children achieve during various levels of development, infant brain development, and attachment. Although each milestone is age appropriate, children development varies from child to child taking in to consideration every child is unique.
Introduction
In a study conducted (2009) on babies language learning starts from the womb. From the first day a newborn cries they already bear the mark of the language their parents speak. In another dramatic finding of this study is that not only are human neonates capable of producing different cry melodies, but they prefer to those melody patterns that are typical for the ambient language they have heard during fetal life, within the last trimester of gestation. Even through prenatal exposure to their native language was known for some time to influence newborns, scientist now believe that it happens much earlier than the preconceived notion that surrounding language affected sound production later in the infant’s life. In addition newborns prefer their mothers’ voice over other voices. In another study

Pre – linguistic Infancy 0-1
Beginning in the womb, infants are introduced to language and are able to hear and distinguish a parent’s voice. After birth, language development will rapidly increase to include talking, singing and the ability to make signs and