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  2. Language development - Wikipedia

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    As the child matures, the rate of language development decreases. 0-1 years of age: An infant mainly uses non-verbal communication (mostly gestures) to communicate. For a newborn, crying is the only means of communication. Infants 1-5 months old have different tones of crying that indicate their emotions. Infants also begin laughing at this stage.

  3. Vocabulary development - Wikipedia

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    Vocabulary development is a process by which people acquire words. Babbling shifts towards meaningful speech as infants grow and produce their first words around the age of one year. In early word learning, infants build their vocabulary slowly. By the age of 18 months, infants can typically produce about 50 words and begin to make word ...

  4. Late talker - Wikipedia

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    The Language Development Survey (LDS) is a prevalent screening method used on toddlers aged 18–35 months of age. [2] This tests whether a child's expressive vocabulary and syntax are developing in a standard way. [2] The LDS consists of a parent or caregiver of the child to report on the child's language development in regards to word ...

  5. 18-month old dog learning to 'speak' knows 29 words, can ...

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    That incident was in August, and now, months later, the 18-month-old is able to communicate fully formed phrases. Hunger said Stella can combine up to five words at once.

  6. Phonological development - Wikipedia

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    Their perceptual system has been tuned to the contrasts relevant in their native language. As for word comprehension, Fenson et al. (1994) tested 10-11-month-old children's comprehension vocabulary size and found a range from 11 words to 154 words. [13] At this age, children normally have not yet begun to speak and thus have no production ...

  7. Word gap - Wikipedia

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    Fernald et al. (2013) also found that by 18 months old language processing and vocabulary disparities were already evident, and by 24 months old there was a 6-month gap between the SES groups in processing skills critical to language development. [4] Fernald et al. found fast reaction time as a child can translate into reaction time as an adult.

  8. Language acquisition - Wikipedia

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    [47] [48] [49] Infants between 21 and 23 months old are also able to use statistical learning to develop "lexical categories", such as an animal category, which infants might later map to newly learned words in the same category. These findings suggest that early experience listening to language is critical to vocabulary acquisition.

  9. Developmental linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Developmental linguistics is the study of the development of linguistic ability in an individual, particularly the acquisition of language in childhood. It involves research into the different stages in language acquisition, language retention, and language loss in both first and second languages, in addition to the area of bilingualism. Before ...