ABSTRACT
It used to be believed that when very young children are babbling they are simply making random noises, but we now realize that they are rehearsing the sound patterns they will use in later speech and that even in the womb children can recognize differences between the speech patterns of different languages. Similarly, it used to be believed that children who were scribbling were just making random marks, or at best rehearsing the motor movements they would need later on to make representational drawings (Kellogg, 1969). As a result, the study of representation in children’s drawings used to begin with the study of the tadpole figures, the first obviously representational drawings to appear.
