Depends what you mean by verbal communication. By the age of three weeks, the mother can identify six different cries from her child - if you really stretch the definition of "verbal communication", then that definitely counts.
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I started reading at 2, though.
No you didn't. Every child does this - they have a picture book read to them so many times that the memorize it like a script, even when to turn each page, so everyone, including they, themselves, thinks they can read.
Писатель всегда будет в оппозиции к политике, пока сама политика будет в оппозиции к культуре.