This showed that monkeys could easily produce many different sounds, enough to produce thousands of distinct words. (sciencedaily.com)
I knew a child who had 100 clear words at a year old, and another who had only about five distinct words when he was two - and - a-half. (home-ed.info)
If the sounds come up together often enough, the babies hear them as distinct words. (discovermagazine.com)