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By 18 months, most children say about 50 words, which are mostly names for objects and people in their environment (words like dog, daddy, ear, apple, juice, bottle). After children’s vocabularies reach a kind of critical mass of 50 words, something seems to happen inside them that leads to a “naming explosion.” Words seem to spurt forth in profusion. This is the time when our inquisitive children start to ask for the names of things: “Whas sat?” Some researchers have suggested that at around this time, typical 18- to 20-month-olds can learn as many as nine new words a day. Imagine that—63 new words a week!

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Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Golinkoff

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