Jean Piaget's stages of linguistic development supports the type and order of words a child uses particularly because of the concept of phonemic expansion. In the sensorimotor stage of Piaget's theory he says baby's experiment with their mouths, saying a lot of unnecessary words/sounds, much like in phonemic expansion, where baby's use unnecessary sounds that do not relate to their own language. When a child grows older it begins to use phonemic reduction which is when they get rid of unnecessary sounds they will not ever need to use, which relates to how the children start to mimic their parents language around them.
In the preoperational stage which lasts between 2-6/7 years old children seem to talk constantly and has not fully developed the idea that others can see what they are doing. This sense of lack of knowledge relates to categorical over-extension, when children categorize something to an extreme sense because they are unaware of the proper name for these objects, such as calling all fruits apples etc.
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