The purpose of this activity is to get you to think about how birth order could influence language development. Are you willing to share your birth order position first? second? middle child? last child? Share your perspective on how birth order may influence the development of language. Perhaps language will be accelerated because infants are surrounded by many more conversations. Alternatively, language could be delayed because the speech that surrounds the infant is less well articulated and perhaps grammatically incorrect. Further, parents may spend more time conversing with older siblings and thus spend less time in one-on-one conversations/interactions with the infant. What do you think of this?