Children continue to learn and develop their speech and language skills. As they acquire new "rules", they sometimes overuse them. They may say things like "I eated it", "there are some childrens". They use language for a number of purposes: to request, comment, question, answer, gain attention, protest, greet and perform social routines. Children's understanding of language is usually greater than their language use.

Language development can be further subdivided into the following categories (Please click the highlighted text).