近段时间，Lulu开始咿咿呀呀学说话，前几天Lulu妈告诉我lulu会说"ba-ba"了，高兴了好一阵子。后来我发现她只是偶尔能发这样的音。她已经在模仿我们说话(说单音而已)，当然她还很笨，能力有限。例如她好想跟我发"ba-ba"这个音，结果很多时候发的是”bu-bu'，嘴巴还不会张开。我说一些元音时，发觉得她在很努力地模仿，但还没有掌握到技巧，很吃力的样子，心有余而力不足。我想现在多些和她说话，而且尽量说一些简短的，含有元音的词，能够让她看到口形（型？）最好。这个时候她周围的人对她的发音影响很大，如果保姆的发音不正，或者带很浓重的地方特色，对小孩以后的发音可能有不利的影响。应该引起重视。打算找一些关于如何教小朋友学习语言的文章来看看，和Lulu分享一下学说话的快乐。

这里有一篇文章，来自slhs.sdsu.edu
还没有细看，先放在这里保存一下。

Teach Your Baby to Talk
As a parent, you are crucial to your little one's language development.

Language is a great power. Skills in understanding language, expressing ideas and concepts eloquently, and decoding written-down language in print are fundamental to school success, social ease, and abstract-thinking ability. Parents and caregivers are crucial partners in helping empower early language development.

First Words
Babies' first vocalizations are throaty coos. By about 4 to 5 months, babies produce some consonants, especially those that use the lips -- such as m, n, and p. When babies combine such consonants with vowel sounds and double the combinations, adults in delight respond as if 'mama," "papa," and "dada" are important words. By their affirmation, parents and caregivers give meanings to these early sounds!
Older babies babble long strings of "jargon," combinations of vowels and consonants with intonations that sound like statements, questions, or commands. By the end of the first year, many babies produce their first words, such as doggie (or woof-woof), li for light, nyum-nyum for food, ba-ba for bottle or blanket, joo for juice, nana for grandma or banana, and choo-choo for toy train. A baby may not say all the sounds in a word, but he might say beh for bread or duh for the ducks you take him to feed in a pond in the park and the ducks you point out in his favorite picture book. Single word sentences are called "holophrastic speech."

First Sentences
By the end of the second year, toddlers put two and three words together: "My toy!" "Dat kitty-cat," "Me so mad," "Where mousie?" "Who dat?" "Daddie fix," "Want cookie." Because little words like the or is are left out, toddler talk is called "telegraphic speech." Adult negation forms ("I don't want meatballs" rather than "No me want dat") and full questions ("How do I draw that, Daddy?") appear during the third year. Although children can ask "Why?" very early, they can't decode and answer "Why?" questions accurately until the preschool years. (It is also during the later preschool years that children learn to interpret passive questions such as, "Was the car hit by the truck?")

Articulation
Some children find it difficult to coordinate their tongue, lips, palate, and other language-production parts, so toddler pronunciation may be difficult to understand. Toddlers often say shishy for fishy, lellow for yellow, or wun for run. Clear articulation is present usually by 3 to 4 years of age. By talking to your child, you and your child's teacher model clear speech. For now, that is instruction enough. There's no need for adults to correct or criticize toddlers who are struggling to make themselves understood.

Boosting Language Learning
You can make language precious from the beginning. When a baby coos, smile and encourage vocalizing by talking delightedly in response to the coos. This "turn-taking talk" spurs a baby to communicate more with you. Expand a bit on toddler talk. If a toddler in his stroller shouts, "Doggie dere!" as he points to a dog on the sidewalk, agree and add: "Yes. A doggie is running on the lovely green grass. He's a big doggie with brown spots."

Pay close attention to everything your toddler says -- even when her babbles are hard to understand. To help her out, ask her to show you what she wants or point to what she is talking about. Ask open-ended questions and wait for a response. When you act genuinely interested in your toddler's answers, you can keep the conversational ball rolling longer. (Open-ended questions also promote children's recall from memory, sharpen observation skills, and encourage planning and if-then syllogistic reasoning skills.)

Parents and teachers are gatekeepers into the rich territories of language eloquence and literacy. You are the special guides who introduce children to the delights, byways, signposts, and fruitful gardens of the land of language learning.

Hands-On Help
· Promote an early passion for books and written language. Read every day. Point to and label animals and creatures in picture books as you snuggle with your little one. Talk about the pictures. Encourage your child to tell you what animal is in a picture or what is going on in the picture.
· Model social language skills. Say "Please" and "Thank you" and "Good job!" so that your toddler becomes familiar with language that smoothes social situations. Your care provider will appreciate your support!
· Parallel talk. Whatever your child is doing, describe the action: "Shoshie, you are rolling out the play dough into a big pancake!" "Nathan, you are stacking your blocks one on top of the other so carefully."

From Parent & Child Magazine

Honig. Alice Sterling (2005). Teach Your Baby to Talk. Retrieved 8 February, 2005