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CTET 7 Feb 2026 Paper 1 English, Question 108

Topic: Language acquisition

Q108

Infants around 2 to 3 months of age are capable of producing open vowel sounds. These sounds are examples of

  1. (1) cooingCorrect answer
  2. (2) babbling
  3. (3) shouting
  4. (4) one-word utterances

Solution.

CBSE answer: (1)

Answer: (1) cooing

  1. At about 2 to 3 months, babies make soft, open vowel sounds such as "oo" and "aah".
  2. This early vowel play is called cooing.
  3. Babbling comes later, around 6 months, with consonant-vowel strings like "ba-ba".

Trap: (2) babbling needs consonants; (4) one-word speech appears near the first birthday.