The telegraphic stage
- Created by: chloen2002
- Created on: 16-12-20 16:10
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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 and the essential content words are kept in.
- Typical errors of the telegraphic stage
- Children mix up subject and object pronouns (not really a virtuous error).
- Ursula Bellugi found they go through 3 stages
- 1.Use names rather than pronouns e.g. 'Katherine want sweeties'
- 2. Mix up subject and object pronouns e.g. 'Me want sweeties'
- 3.Use subject and object pronouns correctly e.g. 'I want sweeties'
- Acquisition of inflections
- Brown (1973) studied children's language development between the ages of 20 and 36 months and found the sequences occurred regularly.
- The children all acquired inflections in the same order
- 1. 'ing' e.g. 'playing teddy'
- 2. Plural 's' e.g. 'two cows'
- 3. Possessive 's' e.g. 'the cow's field'
- 4. Past tense 'ed' e.g. 'I putted (virtuous error)
- 5. Third person singular verb ending 's' e.g. 'she sings'
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