babbling babiesHeather Craven has very beautifully put forward the idea of ‘babbling babies’ using Charles Yang’s study.



Charles Yang, of the University of Pennsylvania, argues in a new book that babies are born with the templates for all languages in their brains, and that the underused templates are gradually discarded. According to Yang, “nature proposes, and nurture disposes”.



Illustrating further, Yang states that seemingly grammatically incorrect baby babble will usually be grammatically correct in another language. According to him, baby babble is nothing but an attempt on the part of an infant to see which template works by eliciting claps, hugs and other signs of approval.



Accordingly, a sentence that seems to be a jumble of verbs and nouns when spoken in English may well be correctly ordered in another language.



Hmm... so whenever your kidos babble, just accept the fact that they are uttering some Spanish or Latin language. 



Read