The creature’s first words and learning experience are similar to that of human babies. It what way is this statement accurate?

He learns words in regards to "things" first, just like a baby. The words; fire. milk, bread, wood, and people's names are exactly like the first words a baby would learn. Example; where's the light; where's daddy; do you want bread? They're all nouns........... all naming words that have physical presence.

"By degrees I made a discovery of still greater moment. I found that these people possessed a method of communicating their experience and feelings to one another by articulate sounds. I perceived that the words they spoke sometimes produced pleasure or pain, smiles or sadness, in the minds and countenances of the hearers."