AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Early birds will start using telegraphic speech between 16 and 18 months. However, it’s more common for children between 18 and 24 months to start putting two-word phrases together. Between the ages of 2 to 2 1/2-years-old, children will progress to three-word telegraphic speech.

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.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -” Giving directions and commands often uses telegraphic sentences to be more precise and easy to follow.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.