One-word sentence
Children who are in the early stages of language acquisition express themselves with a single word via a one-word sentence . The utterance fulfills the function of a linguistic act, as can be seen from the intonation and the context of the action.
The formation of actual sentences, which are at least two-part , follows in child language acquisition after the holophrastic phase, which uses the one-word sentence.
Examples
- Possible meanings of the one-word sentence "Teddy":
- "I want to have the teddy bear!"
- "Where's my teddy?"
- "This is my teddy bear!"
swell
- Helmut Glück (Ed.), Metzler-Lexikon Sprach, 2000