AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -At approximately age 2, children enter the Two-Word Stage of language development. During this stage they exhibit telegraphic speech, which is speech that sounds very much like a telegram, has words arranged in an order that makes sense, and contains almost all nouns and verbs.

Detailed explanation-2: -Telegraphic speech is simply two-word sentences, such as “kitty tired” or “I hungry”. Toddlers develop this level of speech between 18-24 months. Telegraphic speech is important because it means your little one is: Learning to communicate their thoughts and feelings. Learning how to form a sentence.

Detailed explanation-3: -This can be especially difficult in questions, when word order is reversed in English. Because of this, people with aphasia often speak in mostly nouns and verbs. This is called “telegraphic speech” – so called because it resembles the writing that was used in telegrams.

Detailed explanation-4: -Here are some important features of telegraphic speech: Words are in the correct order. Only the most important words are used (usually a noun and a verb or an adjective and a noun). Grammatical constructions are missing, such as prefixes, conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns, and question words.

Detailed explanation-5: -Typical in journalistic writing, a telegraphic sentence states the facts outright with no ‘fluff’ in the sentence providing all of the essential elements without extra words.