Health in the nursery / by Henry Ashby.

  • Henry Ashby
Date:
1905
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Credit: Health in the nursery / by Henry Ashby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hand and say tatay and during the succeeding months his vocabulary of spoken words of which he knows the meaning is increasing fast. He says ta for thank you, poo for pussy, ba for ball. By the twentieth or twenty-second month not only will there be a much enlarged vocabulary, but the child will begin to put two or three words together, as more milk, big bir(d).’ During the last half of the second year, the child usually is able to recognise the common animals as depicted in his picture books. At first all animals are perhaps goe-gee, or bow-wow, or ba-ba, but as time goes on he learns the difference. Colour, too, he is beginning to distinguish, but he certainly has not a fine discrimination at first. All men for awhile are papa, but about this time he appears to apply the word to his father only ; he begins to understand the meaning of naughty and good, and applies these terms to his nurses, brothers, animals, dolls, &c. Third year.—The progress in speech is now very rapid and his pronunciation of words much clearer than at first, though slurring, and the substitution of easy for difficult consonants, constantly occur. Sen¬ tences including nouns, verbs, adjectives, &c., are mastered. Picture books give endless amusement and are in constant request; most common objects—dogs, horses, birds, cats and kittens, children, &c.—are recognised at once. The child at the beginning of the year uses his own pet name in speaking of him¬ self and his wants ; towards the middle of the third year, ‘me’ or ‘I’ is substituted. He has as yet no
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