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0 - 3 months old
Responds vocally to partner such as parents through sighs, cooing, and eventually babbling. -
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Language Development
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8 Months old
The child starts to make gestures in order to show others what they want. -
12 months old
The child's first word is spoken, The words now designate what the child wants instead of the use of gestures. -
18 months old
The starts to combine words and begins to answer simple yes or no questions. -
2 years old
The child begins to add bound morphemes such as prefixes and suffixes to free morphemes to create new words such as restart. -
3 years old
The child begins to speak using more adultlike sentences. -
4 years old
The child begins to be able to have conversations in which they discuss how they are doing, what they are doing, expressing their feelings, and reasoning about different things. -
5 years old
At this age, the ninety percent of a child's language form has been acquired. -
6 years old
The child begins to learn visual mode of communication through writing and reading. -
13 - 18 years old
The child is able to contribute to conversations with others, tell a story about different events, understand the multiple meanings of words, use figurative languages such as a simile or metaphor. They also use different conversational styles based on gender when speaking to others.
