Children are probably better in language-as-communication than current LLMs at relatively young age. Verbal (and bodily) communication is quite different from

Children are probably better in language-as-communication than current LLMs at relatively young age. Verbal (and bodily) communication is quite different from written text and its largely artificially imposed structure. Spoken language is very ungrammatical and directly litterated conversational speech is a total mess on writing standards (and a lot of information is lost in litteration). Even though e.g. Chomskian linguistics make the claim that human language is somehow a special innate syntactic construct (recursive language in the Chomsky hierarchy), I find the empirically stronger view is that the more formal grammars and vocabularies that sometimes are thought of as "language" are very far from how language is actually used when this structure is not imposed. This quite rigid structure of "correct" written language is also likely a major factor to why LLMs are so good at it.