Professor Colwyn Trevarthen: Language development - …



Pre-Birth to Three: - Professor Colwyn Trevarthen: Language development

We are very keen on explaining to people that babies are interested in stories long before they can speak. And when the person speaks to them they hear the sense of the narrator in the way it is spoken, the changes of rhythm, the changes of loudness and excitement in the voice and so on. They make a story; the baby doesn’t have to understand the words.

So language comes as a means of labelling things you already understand, and I think that’s a very important thing; I think that is very important for people to realise, that when they are spending time with children from the age of six months onwards they are starting to become part of the culture. And they want a rich environment; they want a rich environment with lots of different kinds of people doing different things, not totally unfamiliar. It’s to build up a kind of working community with jobs.

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