My DS has been babbling in complete sentences for about a month now. What I mean by that is that he speaks to you like he's conversing with you, sometimes as a question, sometimes a statement, sometimes a command, with pointing and gesticulating and everything. He'll even repeat exactly what he babbled if you say "what?" We speak back to him in English and Spanish, either guessing what he's asking or talking about, or just making stuff up.
I wonder if anyone else has had this experience, and what it means to further speech development; that is, will he just come out and start talking in complete sentences, or will he stop babbling and start adding words one by one, or keep babbling and adding words? He also says a handful of words, including dog (gog), cat (gat, could be spanish gato), gua (agua for water), grasee (gracias for please), mas (spanish for more), and pees (please).
Not worried, just curious.
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Babbling in complete sentences - has anyone else experienced this in their 17-19 month olds?
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RoRoMommy · 05/09/2008 15:16
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