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Fetus can recognize mother's voice
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Vocalizations that the baby makes when it's happy or content and can be made up of vowel or consonant sounds
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They attempt to repeat sounds and words they’re exposed to from their environment
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They begins to produce a series of consonant-vowel syllables
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The most common first words are either “mama” or “dada.”
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Children at this age begin to put a couple of words together to form a sentence such as "mommy ball"
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They have 250 words in their vocabulary
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This is where they extend regular grammatical patterns to irregular words, such as the use of tooths for teeth
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Children begin to use language for all kinds of objects. They’re able to talk about past experiences and beginning to use it to pretend.
They’re beginning to understand and use the rules of language to express possession of something, connect thoughts and quantify. Their language is becoming more like that of adults. -
In elementary school, children continue to expand their use of oral language and are also learning to read a write. As children progress through middle school, they continue to expand their vocabulary, refine their grammatical skills and write in more complexities as well as continue to develop reading comprehension skills.