Explain telegraphic speech

Explain telegraphic speech. [NU-‘12,‘16]

The telegraphic speech refers to the speech of the final stage of language acquisition which is known as telegraphic stage. This stage is named as it is because it is similar to what is seen in a telegram which contains just enough information for the sentence to make sense. This stage contains more than two words sentences.

Sometimes, during this stage, the child begins to see the links between words and objects and therefore, overgeneralization comes in. No function words are used by the child, only open-class content words.

 Examples of sentences in the telegraphic stage are: “Mummy eat carrot”, “What her name?” etc.

However, during this stage, a child’s vocabulary expands from 50 words to up to 13,000 words. At the end of this stage, the child starts to incorporate plurals, joining words and attempts to get a grip on tenses.

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