Memory Language DevelopmentVersión en línea Learn about How Do Children Learn Language? por Shirley Michelle Niquinga Toapanta Language Development Stage 3: Learning Sentences Language Development Stage 1: Learning Sounds At this point, children are able to attach meanings to words. Language Development Stage 2: Learning Words. Language Development Stage 2: Learning Words. Children are not learning words, exactly. They are actually learning morphemes,which are the smallest, discrete chunks words can be broken into. Babies learn which phonemes belong to the language they are learning and which don’t. Infants can distinguish between language sounds and other noise. Children continue to expand their vocabulary and develop more complex language. Language Development Stage 1: Learning Sounds Language Development Stage 3: Learning Sentences They can put words in the correct order.