How does language develop between 7 and 9 months of age?

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  1.  Intermountain Registered Dietitians
     
    Intermountain Registered Dietitians of Intermountain Healthcare answered:
    Language development from 7 to 9 months of age includes:

    Receptive language skills (what a child understands)
    • responds to simple phrases such as "Get the ball"
    • stops activity when told "no" or when you call her name
    • pays attention for up to one minute
    Expressive language skills (what a child says)
    • uses gestures to communicate
    • babbling becomes sentence-like, but without true words
    • imitates sounds
    • babbling is adjusted according to different people and situations
    • listens to others' speech, then responds
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    Language development from 7 to 9 months of age includes: Receptive language skills (what a child understands) responds to simple phrases such as "Get the ball" stops activity when told "no" or when you call her name pays attention for up to... More