Preschool children become more sensitive to the sounds of people voices and are able to speak all sounds of their language. They notice rhymes, enjoy poems, make up silly names for things, and clap along with each syllable in a phrase. This reminds me of when I made up a name for my older sister. I would call her Brandi Andy. Young children show a growing mastery of complex rules for how words should be ordered. Syntax involves the way words are combined to form acceptable phrases and sentences. Gains in semantics also characterizes early childhood. Semantics refers to the meanings of words and sentences. Between 18 months and 6 years of age, young children learn about one new word every hour. It is estimated that by the first grade, children know about 14,000 words.
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