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coordination and motor control; research shows that the
speech code, mapping sound to sign , is not exclusively

auditory or motor, but multimodal; infants become capable
of delayed imitation (execution separated in time from

observation), a possible escape route from echolalia and a
first step towards symbol development. What seems clear
from the above is that the intermodal or amodal relationship

of perception and action provides the basis for imitation. This
also seems to be the case for the relation between speech
production and speech perception, and for the relation

between gesture and speech. Based on the theories above, it
can be said that imitation in language acquisition occurs

when children imitate language patterns and vocabulary of
those significant to them.
b. Conditioning

B.F Skinner (2010) proposed mechanisms of
conditioning or habituation to the child's speech is heard and

to be associated with objects or events that occur. Therefore
the initial vocabulary is owned by the child is a noun.
c. Social cognition

Social cognition is a sub-topic of social psychology that
focuses on how people process, store, and apply information

about other people and social situations. It focuses on the
role that cognitive processes play in our social interactions.
The way we think about others plays a major role in how we

think, feel, and interact with the world around us. It means
that the children gain an understanding of words (semantics)

because he understood the purpose of one's cognition to
produce a phoneme through a mechanism of joint attention.
2 | Fatma Yuniarti, M.Pd., B.I