Notes on documentary 'The hardest thing you'll ever do'

-We talk to babies as if they can understand
-Sense of sight VITAL in CLA
-At 18 months - 50 words in the lexicon, mostly nouns; few politeness strategies
-Girls get positive reinforcement ("clever girl") but boys get none: sexist presumption that boys should do well but girls need help
-Use of onomatopoeia - reinforced through play
-At two and a half years old, children begin to get to grips with adjacency pairs, turn taking and chaining
-They only use simple syntax - NOT complex. They're getting used to conversation but they don't initiate it - only respond to it
-Nursery rhymes & children's books are used teaching them complex syntax
-At three years old children know possessive pronouns
-At three/four they can tell a story with the past tense, but still make virtuous errors.
-Remarkably they will never use the simple past with nouns (e.g, yesterday we 'beached', etc) - Evidence for fox-p-2
-After simple syntax comes compound syntax (joining two simple sentences with a connective)
-At five years old children are more aware or external influences
-100,000 words as an adult - mainly context driven though.