The ability of children lo communicate, especially al the early stage of their lives, is quite remarkable. When they are very young, they start crying, cooing , babbling and gradually begin lo send a great number of messages, either vocally or nonvocally, and d't the same time they receive even more messages.
When they are about J 2 months old, they begin lo produce some of the speech sounds and even words they hear in their environment. They produce one word for one sentence which is known as "Holophrastic" utterances.
The number of words produced by children, by about 17 to 18 months, have remarkably multiplied, and they make specific attempts to make combination of their produced words in order to form two-word and even three-word "sentences".
This new combination of words are commonly reffered to as "telegraphic" utterances. From the stge 11{ 211 month, onward the child will gradually increase the production of more and more words on the one hand, and combine his two-and-three-word sentences on the other hand. When the child is about .1 years old, slhe can easily understand a surprising quantity of linguistic behavior. Her/ his speech capacity grows so rapidly thats/he can have continual conversation ass/he generates a lot of new structures, though slhe does not know the real meaning of the expressions slhe produces.
Since the subject matter iS somehow rather comprehensive, the article has to he submitted in two parts. the first part finishes at the end of "Stage Three" -Eraly Multi- Word production period (18-24 months of age), and the second part starts from "Stage Four" -Later Multi- word production period (24-30 months rage)
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