A child says "Cat here" for "The cat is here". This is typical of:

1. Telegraphic speech belongs to the two-word stage of language acquisition. 2. It drops function words, like the copula "is", so "cat here" stands for "cat is here". 3. Holophrastic speech uses only one word per message. 4. So "Cat here" is telegraphic speech. **Why not the others:** Babbling and cooing have no real words, and holophrastic speech has only one word per message. _Source: Wikipedia, "Telegraphic speech", section "Term in anthropology and developmental psychology" (revision 1338901968)_