The sound babies make when they talk or babble could hold the key to understanding how language developed. According to the journal Science, two researchers from the University of Texas have found that four common world patterns which are used by babies, often turn into the first actual words they ever speak. The way we speak has developed in a certain way because of the natural movements of our mouth. Sounds that we make most easily are produced when we move our lower jaw up and down. These sounds could hold the key to the way language developed. The researchers from the University of Texas found there are four patterns of words, common to baby babbling. Sounds like; ‘ma-ma’, ‘da-da’, ‘ba-ba’, ‘ta-ta’, are used frequently in many languages. In addition, they make up the first words that young children learn when they start to speak. According to a professor Locke, it is entirely probable that early human babies produced the same sounds as modern babies, and as language developed, these sounds were used. The mystery of language continues.
