Outline some ways that language and communication change in middle childhood
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Children learn to comprehend the passive voice and other complex grammatical rules.
Metalinguistic awareness increases.
Children can self-correct grammatical mistakes.
Children can understand double meanings, as in jokes.
Receptive vocabulary increases.
From about 14,000 words at age 6 to about 40,000 at age 11 and 80,000 at age 14.
Much of this increase occurs with derived words.
The narrative style of children improves.
Details are added to the narratives.
Evaluative statements are added to the narratives.
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