There are many clips on YouTube that involve the older generation filming the younger one being cute with language, whether that is just starting to babble or go into the first or second word stages but it can be useful for data on how children improve and use language.
To start, this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKD6jzUxkek, which is a baby coping his Dad when he makes a "ahhhh" noise. This helps to show that from a young age, we as human know the idea of how turn taking works. Who speaks first, then who speaks next and so on. It also shows how we as parents respond to the level that our child is speaking, beginning to use pragmatics and explore the interactive nature of communication like this link of a child using lots of baby talk like babbling/non-verbal communication to talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13hRsyEbX4Q and how in this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZGi57Zl1Qk&feature=related, the child is just beginning to pick up certain softer vowel sounds to try and sing the words to happy birthday.
Gesturing and body language also becomes a great deal and it becomes easier to express what they want to say. This link here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gSZfW4gVhI&feature=related shows a bit more extreme gesturing as this child at the age of 1 is using sign language to communicate but the parents is also responding to her child's correct sign in positive tones. This is important as it helps to motivate the child to carry on to speak or gesture in this case, helping the child to want to pick it up quicker.
This is a good link to find out more detail: http://linguistlist.org/ask-ling/lang-acq.cfm
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