in gestures and some words 24-36 months Initiating 30 words Two words Words not very conversations - Comprehension together clear/intelligible pointing, requesting ahead of production 36-60 months Repairing 100 words Two and three key Consonant, vowel conversations when Rate of word words together and word not understood - by learning increases Early grammar production trying again At 5 years about begins improve in 300 words accuracy 5-7 years Learning to tell Vocabulary 'telegraphic' Consonant and narratives learning continues sentences - vowel production to accelerate At 7 keywords continue to years about 400 Increasingly improve in words correct short accuracy sentences 7-16 years Taking part in longer More new words Correct syntax Blends improve topic related are learned each being mastered Speech becomes conversations year Typical slowly More steadily more Requesting vocabulary size of difficult intelligible Speech clarifications using - older children and prepositions… rate and speech What?, Where teenagers not 'above', 'below', clarity continue to Telling stories known conjunctions – improve, Developing social 'and', 'then', influenced by use of language 'because', reading further - social small comparatives - talk Taking account 'longer than' of listener's Grammar steadily knowledge knowing extended to how to provide include passives in appropriate comprehension amounts of Many of these information for features are person or social learned and used
in gestures and some words 24-36 months Initiating conversations - pointing, requesting 30 words Comprehension ahead of production Two words together Words not very clear/intelligible 36-60 months Repairing conversations when not understood - by trying again 100 words Rate of word learning increases At 5 years about 300 words Two and three key words together Early grammar begins Consonant, vowel and word production improve in accuracy 5-7 years Learning to tell narratives Vocabulary learning continues to accelerate At 7 years about 400 words 'telegraphic' sentences - keywords Increasingly correct short sentences Consonant and vowel production continue to improve in accuracy 7-16 years Taking part in longer topic related conversations Requesting clarifications using - What?, Where Telling stories Developing social use of language further - social small talk Taking account of listener's knowledge knowing how to provide appropriate amounts of information for person or social More new words are learned each year Typical vocabulary size of older children and teenagers not known Correct syntax being mastered slowly More difficult prepositions… 'above', 'below', conjunctions – 'and', 'then', 'because', comparatives - 'longer than' Grammar steadily extended to include passives in comprehension Many of these features are learned and used Blends improve Speech becomes steadily more intelligible Speech rate and speech clarity continue to improve, influenced by reading
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