POST TELEGRAPHIC

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At what age does the child enter the post telegraphic stage?
Around three years
what is important in the post telegraphic stage?
role of input, CDS and scaffolding as children are acquiring conversational skills in different contexts
What do children do in the post telegraphic stage?
imitate and repeat adult language forms, they pick these up along with sociolect and dialect from the immediate environment
what develops in the post telegraphic stage?
conversational skills such as turn taking, back channelling, adjacency pairs, not interrupting
Children use function words more frequently
vocabulary development continues to grow
develop accurate use of pronouns
overgeneralisation is still seen in morpheme development for example verb errors goed and putted
what becomes more diverse and complex?
social interactions as the child has a broader understanding of shared cultural knowledge and awareness of the world, this development is reflected in conversations