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Just as they usually crawl before they walk, babies will babble before they talk. Most babies will start babbling somewhere around 4 months and begin practicing repetitive sounds such as "da da" around 7 months.

Many babies will say their first recognizable word around 12 months old.

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"Babbling is an important milestone because it represents the beginning of real communication when a baby starts experimenting with sounds, listening for a reaction, responding, and building social relationships," says Sherry Artemenko, CCC-SLP, a speech-language pathologist and founder of Play on Words.

Keep reading to learn when most babies transition from babbling to talking and how to support your baby's speech and language development.

When Babies Start Talking

In the journey toward verbal communication, babies' speech skills will progress through stages as their vocal mechanism matures and as they learn to relate to their environment, Artemenko says.

While every child learns language at a different pace, speech development milestones ofte

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