Abstract:
Infants learn new words by listening to the speeches they hear from parents and
other adults. Even though not much is known about the degree to which these
words are meaningful for young infants, the words still play a role in early language
development. Words guide the infants to their first synaptic intuitions and in the
development of the lexicon and it may help infants learn phonetic categories.
The focus here is to glorify the intervention between cognition and language
development through play during the first two years of the child’s existence. The
three major questions on the list of findings is: 1. How do babies learn? 2. How
do babies develop a language through play? 3. How do the variables interact?
Studying how infants learn and what they already know requires an understanding
of the manner in which babies generalize information from one situation to another,
develop abstract concepts and form categories which provide coherence to a
baby’s world. Studying how infants develop a language needs an understanding of
how babies develop words for objects and actions. In understanding how language
and learning interact in every day circumstance as it relates to infants, one needs
to understand how babies learn words and how learning language helps to solidify
what babies already know. Perhaps also how it leads babies to learn what they may
not have learned otherwise.
