TELEGRAPHIC

• What is the telegraphic stage?

  From the age of 2 children begin to produce three and four word utterances
• what is the level of grammar in the telegraphic stage?

  some utterances are grammatically complete but others will still have key elements missing
• which key elements are missed in the telegraphic stage?

  articles eg ‘a’ and ‘the’

  auxiliary verbs eg ‘is’ and ‘has

  prepositions eg ‘to’ ‘on’ ‘for’

  conjunctions eg ‘but‘ and ‘because’
• virtuous errors appear lots, often make verbs up

  eg ‘im souping’ for eating soup or ‘wented’ ’runned’
• how is the telegraphic stage different from two word?

  the two part sentences are extended by adding a subject at the start, towards the end of the stage these are extended further by adding an adverbial
• What happens to pronunciation?

  Becomes closer to the standard pronunciation but can still be wrong
• what are the three stages to forming questions?

  1 intonation used to make a question

  2 rising intonation further used to assist phonology, more complex questions. Wh- words still used

  3 inversion of subject and verb used (‘i can go‘ to ‘can I go?’) quite close to standard formation