CLA: Telegraphic Stage

Question 1

Telegraphic Stage

Telegraphic Stage

Answer 1

• Utterances have become longer
• Children convey ideas through content words and an emerging use of grammatical words, which are often omitted as they are not needed for meaning.

Question 2

Content word

Telegraphic Stage

Answer 2

Content words convey meaning.

Question 3

Grammatical word

Telegraphic Stage

Answer 3

• Needed for structural accuracy but not for meaninf so are often omitted and gradually acquired.

Question 4

Virtuous error

Telegraphic stage

Answer 4

• Errors in morphology that have some underlying logic to demonstrate that learning has taken place.
• e.g. I runned, Three mens

Question 5

Syntatic inversion

Telegraphic Stage

Answer 5

• Reversal of the normal order of the words and phrases in a sentence.
• Learnt when forming a question,
• e.g. ‘I can eat the cake,’ (S;MAV;V;O) becomes ‘Can I eat the cake?’ (MAV;S;V:O)