Telegraphic stage
Several months later children begin to produce longer and more complex grammatical utterances, such as chair broken, what her name, me wanna show Mummy. This stage generally occurs from 24-30 months. Since the sentences produced during this stage are similar to the information found in the telegrams this stage is known as the telegraphic stage. During this stage children do not appear to commonly make word order errors even though the sentences are shortened. The order of the subject, verb and object is mostly correct, but increases during the later months of this stage. Children develop rapidly from age two onward and can move from relatively simple two-word utterances to a broad range of utterances within just a few short months. The most common words are the words of this stage include social interaction - for example, please, bye and no. Over the next months, this vocabulary grows by as much as ten or twelve new words a day. By age six most children have mastered about thirteen thousand words. |
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuIlSdw563E)
Above is a video showing a 2 year old during the telegraphic stage. Using a mixture of nouns and verbs to describe objects and social interactions. |