Eva 5

Child Language Development - Birth to 18

By yparra

  • Birth

    Birth
    Begining of timeline

  • 3 months

    3 months
    Responds vocally to partner.

  • 8 months

    8 months
    Begins gesturing.

  • 12 months

    12 months
    First word spoken; words will intentions previously signaled by gestures.

  • 18 months

    18 months
    Begins combining words on the basis of word-order rules.

  • 2 years

    2 years
    Begins adding bound morphemes with average length or mean length of utterance (MLU) is 1.6 - 2.2 morphemes.

  • 3 years

    3 years
    More adultlike sentence structures, MLU is 3.0 - 3.3 morphemes.

  • 4 years

    4 years
    Begins to change style of talking to fit converstional partner, MLU is 3.6 - 4.7 morphemes.

  • 5 years

    5 years
    Ninety percent of language form learned.

  • 6 years

    6 years
    Begins to learn visual mode of communication with writing and reading.

  • Adolescence

    Adolescence
    Able to participate competently in conversations and telling of narratives, knows multiple meanings of words and figurative language, uses gender style or genderlect, when talking.