Stages of CLD

1) Cooing/babbling

2) Holophrastic-
variable intonation to deliver same word, convey different meanings

• Basic syntax
• One word: Subject, Verb or Order
• Basic Halliday's Functions- convey emotion, instruction, etc.

3) Telegraphic:

• Virtually complete utternaces- three or four morphemes
• Omission of:
• Auxilliary verbs
• Prepositions
• Conjunctions
• Inflectional affixes
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• SVO not always complete (SV or VO)

4) Post-telegraphic:

• Mirrors that of an adult
• Varied complexity in syntax
• Use of modal and prmary auxiliary verbs
• SVO syntax