teleghraphic stage

Question 1

what age is the telegraphic stage

Answer 1

24-30 months

Question 2

what words are missed out more frequently during this stage

Answer 2

auxiliary verbs
articles
conjunctions
prepositions

Question 3

what are virtuous errors

Answer 3

children overgeneralising the rules of grammar and lexical formation e.g i runned

Question 4

what was jean berkos study about?

Answer 4

carried out an experiment on children’s -s plural. she found when children imagined an animal “wug” children tended to create the plural “wugs” when asked to compete the sentence

Question 5

what percent formed the -s plural in 4-5 year olds

Answer 5

76%

Question 6

what percent formed the -s plural in 5-7 year olds

Answer 6

97%

Question 7

how comes children can form the -s plural on an imaginary words?

Answer 7

they have already internalised systematic aspects of the linguistic system that enables them to produce pulras, past tenses and plurals