09/03/23 14:47:54
>the average 3rd grader has less than 10k
“and by their second they hoover them up at a rate of one every two hours. By the time they enter school children
command 13,000 words, and then the pace picks up, because new words rain down on them from both speech and
print. A typical high-school graduate knows about 60,000 words; a literate adult, perhaps twice that number.”
linguist Stephen Pinker
>By the time they enter school children command 13,000 words,
>By the time they enter school children command 13,000 words,
>By the time they enter school children command 13,000 words,