affect development? Ludovica Serratrice and Samantha Durrant address
some common misunderstandings and provide the facts.
Children's language learning is a rather impressive achievement we often take for granted. Just as naturally as they start to crawl and later walk in their first year of life, most children will attempt their early words around their first birthday.
By the age of 18 months they will begin putting some words together in simple combinations (for example, 'Want juice', 'More bread', 'No water'). Figuring out what words mean, how they are pronounced and how they go together in sentences is, however, no mean feat. Accomplishing this task in two or more languages in early childhood should be even more daunting, and yet millions of children do it every day all over the world.
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