Priscilla Dunstan, an Australian mother, has claimed that her research had resulted in the uncovering of a baby language that is universal, and which includes five sounds that are distinct. Babies, as per Dunstan, utter sounds that depend entirely upon their needs. The sound ‘Neh’ uttered by a baby corresponds to its hunger and the sound ‘owh’ is an indication of tiredness. When the baby wants to say that she has lower gas, the baby utters ‘Eairh’ and the sound ‘Heh’ corresponds to the discomfort experienced by the baby, as the baby also is known to utter the sound ‘Eh’ to say that it has gas. All this uttering of sounds happen up till the infant reaches the third month stage, according to Dunstan.

For the mothers, it is equally an important task to know the exact time as when the baby language would be peaking to reach new heights, wherein the baby might start to utter sounds of various types that accompany the crying spells, as it would also gradually repeat sounds made by the parents. This is the time when baby language blooms, and the baby now even tries to repeat the vowels uttered by the elders. The months to follow would lead to a stage where the baby makes an effort to learn the consonants, and would try to utter words combining both. This is the baby talk that matters and the parent can know how well the baby is learning. The baby now starts to get influenced by the environment, and might even venture to frame sentences.

As a parent enjoying the different sounds of your baby, and interpreting the sounds uttered by her is the beginning of decoding the many crying spells of the baby. Spending time to listen, watching and learning from experiences with your baby, is going to make you better at interpreting her verbal as well as the non-verbal communications. The advantages of listening to your baby to know about the message that he is conveying are twofold. The baby starts to feel that someone is receiving his ideas attentively and the parent through vigorous listening will attain a position where the baby’s cues get deciphered easily.

To put this baby language into a path of language development, the parent will have to respond properly to the cries of the babies, enter into conversations with the babies, talk to the baby in a natural fashion and extend the language of the baby by describing what has been observed with respect to the baby’s doing and also what the parent has been doing with the baby.

A parent will have to keep her ears sharp for distinctive sounds made by the babies, and if the parent is not able to fathom the meaning conveyed by the word uttered, it is deemed better to comfort the baby, and the parent instead should make a sincere attempt to listen to same uttered word the next time.

Baby language serves as an important platform to nourish the intellectual capabilities of the child, which necessitates the parents to listen attentively to all the sounds uttered by the baby that come along with the crying spells.