A baby grasps the concept of all five vowels before they do the consonants, and only by age four are they thought to be fairly confident with all letters of the alphabet. In early speech, the consonants are used correctly at the beginning of said words by the child, but the last letters prove a little more difficult. They seem to simplify the pronunciation by deleting these offending final letters

By the age of eighteen months, a baby is thought to have a vocabulary of around 50 words, but is able to understand about 250. When they hear one of these understandable words, they are yet to appreciate the full range of its meanings. But can relate it to a person, object or action without being able to pronounce the word itself. The first words a child speaks often refer to people, (such as mummy or daddy) familiar objects, (like ball and shoes) and fairly simple social interactions such as hello and bye-bye. As the young children develop this understanding of objects, people and interactions, not only do they need to remember the correct pronunciation, but to which object or situation it refers to, and sometimes this is not always correct within the early stages.

, and with them certain syllables or sounds. E.g. leaving the t s

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Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)