Toddlers (1 year)
Sounds and words together in speech-like (inflected) patterns.
Jargon
The vocabulary of a two-year-old is continuously _______.
Increasing
Three-year-olds can answer _______ questions correctly.
Simple
A four-year-old can answer these three questions that begin with a "W".
Whose, Who, & Why
By making up simple jokes and riddles, a five-year-old demonstrates his understanding of this.
Humor
Understanding words that are heard.
Receptive Language
Children this age will often express negative statements by tacking on these two common negative words to the phrase.
"No" and "Not"
By saying, "Abe has a big dog at his house," a child this age can reference people not _______.
Present
Children this age can start to use the _______ tense of verbs correctly when speaking.
Past
Five-year-olds can use the past tense of _______ verbs consistently.
Irregular
One-year-olds can respond to simple questions with _______ accompanying a "yes" or "no".
Appropriate Head Movement
The repetition of whole words or phrases that are uttered without frustration (often at the beginning of a statement).
Dysfluency
A three-year-old using a number of speech forms to keep a conversation going demonstrates a characteristic that is more prevalent in this type of culture.
Western
For the most part, four-year-olds can now use _______ correctly, such as "on", "in", and "under".
Prepositions
Five-year-olds can produce sentences with _______ to _______ words, although longer sentences are not unusual.
5 to 7
Children this age who use one word to convey an entire thought are demonstrating _______.
Holophrastic Speech
Most two-year-olds have a more advanced receptive language than their _______ language.
Expressive
By saying "Hi.", "Bye.", and "Please.", a three-year-old is engaging in social interaction _______.
Rituals
A four-year-old will use _______ consistently, such as "hers" and "his".
Possessives
By a five-year-old saying, "A ball is to bounce," he is demonstrating using this.
Functional Definitions
One-year-olds are capable of producing speech that is _______ to _______ percent intelligible during this period.
25 to 50 percent
By breaking the "linguistic code", a two-year-old is demonstrating Lev Vygotsky's idea of _______.
Self-Talk
The vocabulary of a child this age can be between _______ and _______ words.
300 and 1,000
Children this age will change their _______ of voice and _______ _______ to adapt to the listener's level of understanding.
A child this age has a vocabulary of _______ words or more.
1,500