When babies babble with a falling intonation at the end of a string of sounds, it seems to signal a desire for a response. When babies first start babbling, they typically babble all kinds of sounds, including some that are not part of the language they are hearing. At about 11 or 12 months of age, the sound repertoire in babbling gradually comes to include many sounds babies do not hear spoken around them. Children generally understand more than they can express. Children generally express more than what they understand.
Children generally understand only the words they express.
Approximately 50 percent of children express more than they can understand. Section B. Short essay. Use complete sentences. Briefly describe the three components of intelligence , identified by Sternberg s triarchic theory of intelligence . Describe two alternatives for bilingual education used in the United States and cite the strengths and weaknesses of each.