AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -They are commonly used by toddlers during the second year of their language acquisition by taking away grammar in making sentences and just leaving the content words. Telegraphic sentences contain nouns and verbs with direct meaning.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Telegraphic stage occurs around the age of 2 1/2 years. In this stage, children begin stringing more than two words together, perhaps three or four or five at a time. However, the style of speaking children use in this stage resembles the way of writing that used to be used in telegrams.

Detailed explanation-3: -Telegraphic speech is seen developmentally when a child moves beyond the two-word, relational stage of language development and begins to express longer, three-word sentences using a finite set of grammatical categories, such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.