Verbal development: differences between siblings
Filed under: Babies, Toddlers Preschoolers, Preschoolers, Siblings, Development/Milestones: Babies
Both of my children were "talkers, not
walkers." Both crawled and walked relatively late, and both talked relatively early. "Wallie," my
17-month-old was especially verbal beginning at around nine-months-old. She didn't start walking until she was almost
16-months-old, and I think it was because she had already figured out how to get us to run around and do her bidding.
(She's no fool!)One thing that I notice about Wallie's talking is that she seems to pronounce certain words more clearly than her older sister "Bunny" did. For example, Bunny said "boop" for "book," but Wallie says "book". Bunny said "duice" instead of "juice," but Wallie says "juice." Bunny said, "no" for "nose," but Wallie says, "nose." I wonder what is different about their mouths, teeth, and tongues and/or their verbal development in general that causes these pronunciation differences.
Of course, Wallie says a lot of words the same as her sister, just by nature of how children's verbal skills develop. I'm certainly no professional linguist, I'm just interested in and fascinated by the language differences between two girls raised in the same family. Do your kids speak differently, too?
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2-18-2006 @ 8:11AM
M. said...Some of it is because they have a "role model" in their older siblings. They have the older siblings talking and interacting with them. I find that the older siblings will teach and correct the younger siblings. That always helps. :)
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2-18-2006 @ 10:31AM
Caitlin said...My sister was more of a talker than a walker, but my grandpa has a video of us together when I was 3 and she was 15ish months. She would start pulling up, get up the courage to let go, and 5 seconds later I'd come running by on my stick pony and she'd fall down. My mom thinks she would have learned to walk earlier than 16 months if I hadn't been such an active 3 year old.
I always spoke more clearly than she did as a child, but since she was the baby of the family for three years, she could get away with it because I would interpret it for her. I think me being an early reader, and a nonstop talker probably didn't help things too much. She picked up my mispronunciations of new words I read to her and I was probably bad about not letting her get a word in edgewise.
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2-18-2006 @ 6:58PM
ann adams said...Oh sure. Rochelle and Rebecca are 10 months apart. Rebecca jabbered like a parrot very early and I understood one word out of every 10. Rochelle, the elder, watched. Rebecca became more clear but still the non-stop chatterbox. Rochelle watched.
Just as I was becoming concerned about Rochelle, she opened her mouth and out came perfect sentences. She evidently was listening until she was sure she had it right.
In our case, it's the difference in kids. Rochelle is still quiet and Rebecca never met a conjunction she didn't like (especially and or but). I have to remind her to breathe.
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2-19-2006 @ 9:41AM
Laura Snow said...I worried about talking with my son and research showed me that children that age can only concentrate on one part of their brain at a time.. they can learn to talk first or learn to walk first.. not both. Our son crawled at 5 mos, stood up at 6 months, walked at 8 months.. but he didn't talk till well past a year and now he's almost 3 and still is a year behind his peers in talking. Not that he can't.. he just doesn't seem to want to. Ironically if I could have chosen, I would have chose talking over walking at least at age 1!
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