CLICK ON THE PREVIEW FOR MORE DETAILS. Children who first learn language talk about what they know. This includes what they see, what they are doing, what other people are doing, etc. They are mainly interested in what happens in their immediate environment, the “here and now”, rather than what happened 5 minutes ago. Children begin to learn the code for representing what they know in order to understand and produce 1-word utterances, usually nouns and verbs. They expand to two words, then 3 wo