speech of 1 to 2-year-olds in which two or more meaningful words are put together to form brief sentences.
speech marked by reliance on nouns and verbs, while omitting other parts of speech, including articles and prepositions. (330)
The tendency for children to speak using rudimentary sentences that are missing words and grammatical markings but follow a logical syntax. go to glossary index
Speech that is characterized by the use of a few content words without functional words or certain grammatical markers as in telegraphs.
A stage in the development of speech in which the child preserves only the most meaningful and perceptually salient elements of adult speech. The child tends to omit prepositions, articles, prefixes, suffixes, and auxiliary words.
Speech which sounds like a telegram. Only the main words of a sentence (nouns, verbs) are present; the small words (ifs, ands, buts,) are missing. This type of speech often gets the message across. [Click Here To Return To List
Early two-word speech that contains few modifiers, prepositions, or other connective words.
Telegraphic speech, according to linguistics and psychology, is speech during the two-word stage of language acquisition in children, which is laconic and efficient.