Discuss some of the different language milestones.

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Some of the language milestones are the following: (1) infants usually utter their first word at about 12 to 18 months of age; (2) at the age of 2 years, a child correctly begins to use plurals and past tense, and vocabulary increases rapidly; (3) at the age of 9 to 11 years, a child includes synonyms in word definitions; (4) at the age of 18 to 24 months, the typical child's vocabulary has reached an average of 200 words and the child can use two-word combinations; (5) at the age of 0 to 6 months, the typical child is cooing and can discriminate vowels.
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