Between two and two-and-a-half years old, the child begins producing a large number of utterances that could be classified as “multiple-word” speech. The salient feature
of these utterances ceases to be the number of words, but the variation in word forms
that begins to appear. Before we investigate this development, we should note a
stage that is described as telegraphic speech. This is characterized by strings of
words (lexical morphemes) in phrases or sentences such as this shoe all wet, cat
drink milk and daddy go bye-bye