The telegraphic stage
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- Created on: 14-12-20 15:16
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- The Telegraphic Stage
- Once a child begins to combine three or more words they can achieve more explicit meanings.
- The style is quite like that of a telegram in that less essential (function words) are left out an the essential content words are kept.
- Typical errors of the telegraphic stage
- Children mix up subject and object pronouns
- Not really a virtuous error
- Ursula Bellugi found they go through three stages:
- 1. Use Names rather than pronouns "Katherine want sweeties"
- 2. Mix up subject and object pronouns "Me want sweeties"
- 3. Use subject and object pronouns correctly "I want sweeties"
- Children mix up subject and object pronouns
- Acquisition of Inflections
- Brown (1973) studied children's language development between the ages of twenty and thirty-six months and found the sequence shown below occurred regularly.
- The children all acquired inflections in the same order
- 'ing'- "playing teddy"
- Plural 's'- "two cows"
- Possessive 's'- "the cow's field'
- Past tense 'ed'- "I putted" (Virtuous error)
- Third person singular verb ending 's'- "she sings"
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