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Between the ages of 18-24 months old a child begins to say two-word utterances. These utterances can show possession, "My toy" or ask a question, "Where mama?" Utterances can also be used to identify, "Look bird."

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When a infant forms a word with meaning it is known as their first word. All parents wait on two words, mama and dada. These two words are the identification word for the parents. An infant can say their first word as early as 5 months old.

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Gestures is not a verbal milestone, but it is used to communicate. The infant will point at something of interest or show something to someone that the infant wants to be noticed. This can happen anywhere between 7-15 months old but typically happens around 11-12 months of age

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Babbling begins at about 6 months old. This is when the infant is capable of making constant phonemes.

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Cooing is a form of communication that typically signals pleasure. It is a noise that comes from the back of the throat. Cooing begins around 2-4 months old.

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Crying is the very first form of communication. This begins at birth, Crying is usually done when the baby needs something; food, attention, diaper change, sleep

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Within the first 6 months an infant is able to recognize the change of a phoneme after one is played constantly, and then suddenly changes.

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Pragmatics has a very broad meaning to language. A couple of the meanings are showing the ability to hold a discussion, speaking with manners to someone, or trying to imply something by using a question.

Ex: If i were trying to hint to my room-ate that it is cod in the house, but did not want to say it outright, by using pragmatics I could say, "Who turned the AC down so low?" or "Am I the only one freezing?"

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Morphology is used i language to  to provide past, present or future tense to something. It is also to used add more syllables to a word.

Ex: Morphology is described as saying she sings, she sung or she will sing. By stating it in these ways it changes the time frame being described.

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Phonology is how a language interprets the sound letters make when combined together. Individual letters represent a sound and that understanding is called a phoneme.

Ex: Phonology is understanding that "br" can combine with "own" to make brown or "at" to make brat The "br" represents the same sound in both words.

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Semantics takes a word and gives it meaning. The word phone is useless until we know how to apply it. Because of semantics we know that a phone is used to communicate.

Ex: By understanding semantics one would be able to make the sentence, "The children jumped on the trampoline." Not understanding would sound like, "We filled the trampoline up with water so we could go swimming."

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Syntax is an understanding through a language that makes a sentence understandable.All languages have a syntactic understanding, they have similarities and differences.

Ex: an acceptable sentence through syntactic understanding is, "Riley played with Bryleigh." An unacceptable syntactic understanding would be, "Riley play, Bryleigh play, they both play."