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The earliest stage of speech development is called the ________ stage.

A) babbling
B) telegraphic speech
C) one-word
D) grammatical

Babbling Stage

Beginning at about 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language.

Telegraphic Speech

Early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram—"go car"—using mostly nouns and verbs.

Grammatical Stage

A phase in child language development during which the understanding and use of grammatical structures improves.

  • Understand the stages of language development and their characteristics.
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