According to Your Text, by Age 6 the Average Child

Essay

According to your text, by age 6 the average child has a vocabulary of more than 14,000 words. Think about your own child's vocabulary and how his or her language has developed over the past few years. Has sentence length increased, as well as understanding of plurals and possessives? Describe. What role did fast mapping play in the acquisition of language? In addition, have you noticed a change in the amount of social speech versus private speech? Describe.