STAGES OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
3 MONTHS : LESS CRYING, SMILE
4 MONTHS : TURNS HIS HEAD, LOOKS FOR THE SPEAKER, CHUCKLING SOUND
5 MONTHS : UTTERING OF CONSONANTS SOUNDS
6 MONTHS : UTTERING OF MOST COMMON SOUNDS
8 MONTHS : REDUPLICATION BECOMES FREQUENT
10 MONTHS : IMITATING OF SOUNDS
12 MONTHS : THE AVERAGE VOCAULARY IS 3 WORDS
18 MONTHS : UNDERSTANDING PROGRESS QUITE RAPIDLY
24 MONTHS : VOCABULARY INCREASES > 50 WORDS
30 MONTHS : THE CHILD LEARNS NEW WORDS
- IDENTIFICATION-SEE BALL
- LOCATION-BOOK THERE
- REPETITION-MORE MILK
- NON-EXISTENCE-ALL GONE
- NEGATION-NOT WOLF
- POSSESSION-MY BALL
- QUESTION-WHERE PAPA
- 3 YEARS -AVERAGE VOCABULARY IS 896 WORDS
- 4 YEARS – LANGUAGE IS WELL ESTABLISHED. VOCABULARY IS 1540