A longitudinal study on the lexical and pragmatic
development of 24 Italian children during the second year of
life is presented. Parents filled in the PVB inventory and were
interviewed using PICA parental interview at 14, 18 and 24
months of age of their children. Results are consistent with
previous findings that underlined the individual stability of
language acquisition and show the positive correlations
between lexical and communicative acts increments. Those
findings point out the possibility of a very early intervention
if there is a late language emergence.
