Telegraphic speech is speech in which key words such as nouns and verbs are used and all other important little words are left out. For example if one is trying to say “the dog is running”, it may come out “dog run” or “dog running”. Right!
Telegraphic speech is speech in which key words such as nouns and verbs are used and all other important little words are left out. For example if one is trying to say “the dog is running”, it may come out “dog run” or “dog running”.
Telegraphic speech is not a bad thing. It is often a phase or developmental stage one goes through before they develop more sophisticated language skills. Children often are able to learn those very important smaller words, such as articles (a, an, the) and auxiliaries (is, are, etc.) and other parts of speech necessary to make longer sentences without much more than a little time listening to the adults around them and trying to say utterances themselves.