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.
