Before explaining the news, we would like to review a bit what the existing stages are Between babbling and words. From birth to two months, the baby performs reflex vocalizations, these are characterized by the sharpness of the sounds. From the second to the third month, the baby begins with the twitter stage, at this stage the child usually says the word "garlic" very often.
Between the third and fifth month the baby begins to pronounce some consonants or minimal vowels, at this stage the specialists call him vocal play. From the sixth month until the ninth, the baby already begins to form repeated and long-lasting syllabic chains, this stage is called reduplicative babble.
Non-reduplicative babbling is the next stage between the ninth month and until the first words appear. At this stage the communicative context begins, short vowel-consonant strings, vocal consonant, etc.
Until now, the changes produced in the child's brain could not be visualized, but this has changed, achieving an important scientific advance. The news is the following, the evolution that children experience from babbling to words can be seen through images.
A study that has been carried out in Barcelona by Catalan researchers, has shown for the first time in images what happens in the brain of a baby when he acquires the vocabulary between 18 and 24 months of age. The areas of the brain related to language mature and myelin covers these areas (white area in the photo), then, automatically the child goes from babble to talk.
This discovery will make it possible, according to neurologist Jesús Pujol, to help children who have problems with language, because thanks to these images you can study the time in which changes occur and follow up to determine the causes of the problem.
