Most children do not start talking until the age of one. By…
Most children do not start talking until the age of one. By the age of three, they understand most rules of sentence construction. The average six-year-old, native English speaker has a vocabulary of about 13,000 words. These skills are impressive, considering that most children at that age are not adept at activities such as driving, cooking, or fine motor coordination. From this, we can surmise that language acquisition is: