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From around the second month, babies clearly begin to communicate for social reasons. Rather than gazing neutrally at his parent, the infant becomes far more attentive and can concentrate for longer periods of time. He actively seeks eye-contact and will match his parent’s expressions and increasingly follow his looks to them with ‘smiles, vocalisation and hand gestures, as well as the more deliberate and well-formed mouth and tongue movements that are described as ‘pre-speech’ (Murray 2014: 11).

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Julie Fisher

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