Interesting story on how babbling babies are not just making random
sounds, but working on language skills -- cute baby picture too.
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2001/1116/1

Just to relate this to breastfeeding --  Doctors sometimes take a
wait-and-see attitude on tongue-ties, saying "we can deal with it when
the child is two or three if it seems to be interfering with speech."
(Breastfeeding, or at least comfortable breastfeeding is, of course,
disposable.) It might be worth noting how much earlier a baby starts
trial-and-error work in producing sounds, which might be hampered by not
having full use of the equipment.

Great, witty book, "The Language Instinct" by Stephen Pinker mentioned
that a linguist can tell a nine-month old baby's native language,
because after a certain point babies only babble in sounds that occur in
the language they hear.

Margaret Wills LLLL, IBCLC

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