Some say the development of a child during its early years are pivotal to determine its later personality traits, and the kind of relationships it has with other siblings, parents and friends. Through studies of deprivation, some theorists also say that this early bond the baby has with its mother can had an adverse affect on the child’s development not only with relationships, but with the speed at which the child’s language is …showed first 75 words of 568 total…

…showed last 75 words of 568 total…developing children. As afore mentioned, by age eighteen months, a vocabulary of around fifty words is amounted, but it is thought to be almost a third of these as being overextended. As a child’s vocabulary slowly develops over time, the meanings of overextended words gets narrower, and the underextended grows. This is because, as I said the vocabulary is growing, and filling the gaps between the extensions, creating a more definite, somewhat correct vocabulary.