24-36 Months

Normal Language Acquisition Milestones for children starting at 24 months (two years) old to 36 months (three years) old

At 24 months, they are now asking questions with rising intonation. They are also producing about 65% of all words intelligibly
At 28 months, the child is now pronouncing around 70% of all words intelligibly. On top of this, they are also now showing phonological processes such as final-consonant omission and substitution of consonants.
Between 32-36 months, the child is suppressing most common phonological processes by this age. They are also pronouncing around 80% of all words intelligibly.

(Speech Milestones)

(Textbook)

Like said in the past section, at 24 months old the child is beginning to use two-word combinations. They are also using the prepositions "in" and "on" and are using plural and possessive morphemes and some irregular past tense verbs. They also have an MLU around 1.92 and are in Brown's Stage II.
At 28 months, they are now heading towards Brown's Stage III at around 30 months. They are also using present progressive morpheme -ing with mastery now.
Between 32-36 months, the child is using contractions and 25% of all their utterances consist of single nouns. 25% also consist of single verbs. At this age, they have an MLU around 2.85-3.16.

(Language Milestones)

(Textbook)

Again, like said in the last section, at 24 months, the child is comprehending around 500 words and producing around 200 words. (Textbook)
At 28 months, they are now overgeneralizing about one third of all new words. They are also attending to sentence structure when interpreting new words. (Textbook)
Between 32-36 months, the child is now comprehending about 900 words and produces about 500 words. They are also asking simple questions. (Textbook)
At 36 months, they can name parts of objects, sort objects into categories, determine if items are the same or different. They can also use some shape, color, letter, and number words, as well as understand "not." (Semantic Development Milestones)

(Language Milestones)

(Textbook, Semantic Development Milestones)

At 24 months, imaginative, heuristic, and informative language functions begin to emerge. (Textbook)
At 28 months, they are now introducing and changing discussion topics. They are also engaging in short dialogues. (RR)
Between 32-36 months, the child is also clarifying and requesting clarification during conversations. (Textbook)

(Language Milestones)

(Textbook, RR)

As children are learning about spoken language, they are also learning about written language through books, signs, and notes. They also pick up on what their parents are doing.
Before learning to read words, children learn that print represents words and before writing, they learn to make marks and draw pictures. Only later on do they understand the full picture.
They will continue to critically think and use their imagination at this age.
Looks at, listens to, and shows appreciation of books
Understands Print Functions, Print Forms and Conventions.
Understands structure of books and stories such as the beginning, middle, and end

Preliteracy skills are a building block of Language Milestones

(Allaboutyoungchildren.org, thebump.com, home-speech-home.com)

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