What’s on the Language Milestones poster
A 7-row table: Stage · Age · Features.
Typical ages; wide individual variation is expected.
- Cooing — 2–4 months — Vowel sounds
- Babbling — 6–9 months — Consonant-vowel repetition
- First words — 10–15 months — Single words with meaning
- Vocabulary spurt — 18 months — Rapid word learning
- Two-word stage — 18–24 months — 'more milk'
- Telegraphic — 2–3 years — Content words, no function words
- Complex sentences — 3–5 years — Clauses, questions, past tense
Over-regularisation — 'goed', 'sheeps' — appears after correct irregular forms, showing a rule has been extracted.
Questions about the Language Milestones poster
- What’s on the Language Milestones poster?
- A 7-row table: Stage · Age · Features. Typical ages; wide individual variation is expected. Cooing — 2–4 months — Vowel sounds; Babbling — 6–9 months — Consonant-vowel repetition; First words — 10–15 months — Single words with meaning; Vocabulary spurt — 18 months — Rapid word learning; Two-word stage — 18–24 months — 'more milk'; Telegraphic — 2–3 years — Content words, no function words; Complex sentences — 3–5 years — Clauses, questions, past tense. Over-regularisation — 'goed', 'sheeps' — appears after correct irregular forms, showing a rule has been extracted.
- Who is the Language Milestones poster for?
- Language Milestones belongs to the Psychology section rather than to a school year, because life science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning developmental can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Language Milestones poster?
- The order is consistent. The timing varies widely and normally. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Language Milestones belongs on the wall where that life science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Language Milestones?
- Adolescence, Cognitive Ageing and Attachment sit alongside Language Milestones in the Psychology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.AdolescenceCognitive AgeingAttachment
- Is the Language Milestones poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Language Milestones downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Psychology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Language Milestones poster print at?
- Language Milestones is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Language Milestones loses nothing.Printing guide
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