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When your child is one years old the language of the child really starts to kick off. Have you noticed a child a child responding to simple instructions? From stopping a bus to cooking your favourite lard cake you may have heard ‘’ push the button’’ or ‘’don’t touch, it’s hot’’. They will be able to follow yours or others simple instructions at this age and will recognize simple questions (‘’where’s the pig’’ or ‘’ is that pig fat?’’)

Ogden Nash poem stated ‘They can’t talk straight/ any more than they can straight’. Is this necessarily true? Well at the age of one Ogden may be wrong because children have now moved on from the ‘cooing’ and ‘babbling’ stage to the one-word stage.  

According to language experts single words are not language. The simple words that were discussed previously are not language as Andrew Wilkinson said in 1971. However according to  Noam Chomsky another language experts Andrew is wrong , as Chomsky states it is deep in us, and also that there is a clear learning system in side of us.