Language Learning

By drolle18

  • 2 months

    Beginning of language where infant coos and makes pleasant vowel sounds.

  • 4 months

    Infant learns taking turns conversational patterns by playing peek-a-boo and patty cake with a caregiver.

  • 6 months

    Infants begin to babble using vowels and consonants. Infant can comprehend few commonly used words by caregiver.

  • 8-12 months

    Infant can focus on what the caregiver is focused on. Infant can play taking turn games and can trade roles with caregiver. Infant can use gestures to convey information and get a result.

  • 12 months

    Toddler is able to say their first word, babble in intonation patterns of community, and can comprehend words faster.

  • 18-24 months

    Toddler has a 250 word vocabulary and can combine two words.

  • 3 years old

    Child's vocabulary is increases rapidly, the child starts to understand sentence structure, broader word meanings, and pragmatics.

  • 5 years old

    Child has almost 10,000 word vocabulary, uses the correct grammar in sentences, and language has adapted to social expectations.

  • 6-7 years old

    Child has 40,000 words in their vocabulary, child can add time and transitions into conversational sentences, describe objects in detail, and can begin to be fluent in multiple languages.

  • 12 to 18 years of age

    Child adds many abstract words to their vocabulary, can explain the definition of words abstractly, understands figurative language, masters cognitive self regulation, and can adapt language to social context.