01697caa a2200193   4500008004100000022001400041100001400055245011900069260000900188270011800197270009400315300001000409490002200419520088400441653006401325700001601389773005501405856004301460210629s9999    xx            000 0 und d  a2640-9844  aReeny Roy 0aEarly Word Productions in 8 to 12 Month Old Typically Developing Malayalam Learning Children: An Exploratory Study  c2019  a Department of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology, Naseema Institute of Speech and Hearing, Bangalore, India  aDepartment of Clinical Services, All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysore, India  a53-60  vVolume 1  Issue 1  aInfants start to vocalize recognizable words at an early age. Early linguistic interactions with the parents and caregivers is certainly important to establish these early linguistic abilities. Some word like forms do appear to have meaningful correlation with the infants primary language. With this reference, it is essential to investigate the early word productions during the babbling phase to their first word productions. The present paper highlights on the occurrence of early word productions in 8 to 12month old infants in Malayalam language. The participants consisted of 20 typically developing native speaking Malayalam infants. Vihman and McCune’s (1994) criteria was utilized to determine the early words after the audio recordings were carried out and transcribed. The transcribed data was analyzed in IPA to acquire the frequency of the early word productions.  aearly words, Malayalam, babbling, phonological development   aSreedevi, N  aEnglish Language Teaching and Linguistics Studies   uhttps://doi.org/10.22158/eltls.v1n1p53