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The child learns to communicate with intention, usually in an effort to influence the actions of their parents.
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The child has formed their own dictionary of words to use based on their environment.
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The child's lexicon quickly expands from around 300 words to over one thousand.
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Semantics and pragmatics are being learned, leading to understanding figurative language and abstract language.
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Children develop stronger conversational skills and an expanded narrative ability relevant to storytelling.
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The child eventually has a lexicon of around 60 thousand words or more by the time they are in high school.
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Words now have specific and shared definitions instead of definitions based on experience only; multiple word meanings are also learned.
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The child's language form development continues, but slows in comparison with the speed of their language development as toddlers.