typical early words for babies and toddlers in your language

[dustthouart]

From both my (admittedly introductory) study of linguistics and my own experience with my 14 month old, it seems that the early words of children are guided chiefly by #1 what the children themselves find most urgent and interesting to communicate, #2 what their unskilled and immature muscles find possible to form, and #3 starting with nouns and

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[thekumquat]

My son was exposed to English and various BSL/Makaton signs but not fluent sign - probably the level of baby talk though!
IME in English some babies manage ddd early whereas others do mmm, and the other comes later. The Quatlet could only say Dadda until nearly 19 months, when he suddenly acquired a dozen words and signs in a couple days. Foor the first few months he would sign and speak st the same time, which helped me understand him - iss+ arm-wriggling =fish, for example. But by 22 months he had over 200 words and didn't know signs for half of them, so signing hot generally dropped.

Early words were duck, milk, bread, more, bed, home, all-gone. Mummy wasn't in the first 200 - was rather embarrassing collecting him from nursery to Daddy! Daddy!

[amles80]

I don't have children of my own but I have nephews, and friends with children. I am Swedish.

My oldest nephew's first words were nej (no), mamma, pappa (dad) and hej (hello). I think that these words are stereotypical first/early words for babies and toddlers here! But it's not always like that, of course. My mom has told me that my first word was "blomla" which was supposed to mean blomma (flower). My sister's first word was katt (cat) even though we didn't have pets of our own during that time, but mom and she used to look at the neighbour's cats through the window. Another word my nephew said early was "dato" = dator without the r (computer). His first phrase was titta dator (look computer). This has everything to do with the fact that his father spends a lot of time with his computer/laptop/ipad/whatever

[provencepuss]

so you have all noticed the common first sounds are bilabials; and alveolar stops (m b p t d ) and the open vowels in the child's parent's language. That a baby also learns first words in sign is because it copies the movements and gets reinforced my mama/papa's joy.

[sturmkit]

i have no idea what my first word was. i think it was Daddy. my daughter's first sign was MORE for MORE books. her first word was Mama. we signed with her and we still do. when we signed we signed as we spoke what we were signing (if that makes sense) in order for her to connct the word and the sign.
we also did some basic Spanish and Italian as well, though we are English speakers, and our grasps of Spanish and Italian are extremely basic.

I wasn't concerned by my daughter's signing before she spoke. she was communicating with her hands before her vocalizations were completely on target. her signing vocabulary was much higher than her verbalized vocabulary because it was more at the ready for her i think.

she is four and a half years old now. she still signs, responds to sign, and is pursuing learning more sign language (mama how do you say tomato in sign language?) She speaks fine, and is extremely articulate.

stereotypical first words here: mommy, daddy, dog, cat, milk, juice...

[sayga]

We did sign and English with both our babies, and sometimes either of them would have a sign for one thing and a word for another. "Cat" was one where we would hear "ca-" and see fingers moving near the face (ASL sign mimics whiskers on a cat). We never got to the point where the child was using more than 3 signed words put together ("more _____" and "_____ please" were the most common 2-word combinations, and the only times we saw 3 words in sign was "more _____ please"). We did see sentences in English accompanied by 1-2 signs, perhaps for clarification