two word phrases

[Arhumuk]

Hi

My son turned two this month he has quite a few single words I'd imagine over 70 don't have an exact number as he's come out with words recently that I didn't know he knew.

But no 2 word phrases that is until a couple of weeks ago but im not sure whether they would count as they're not a verb noun combination.

A couple of weeks ago my son came up to me with the Bubble wand and said "daddy bubbles" giving me the bubble wand wanting to make bubbles. But is this what is regarded as a 2 word phrase in the literal sense it is but from a functional language point of view.

Also walking through nottinghill and a train went past he looked at the train going by and said "bye bye train."

Other phrases used are "thank you" and "there you go" both used in the right context. But I believe these would have been learnt parrot fashion as his mother always says there you go when she gives him something,

Two words phrases do not have to have verbs and will start out very simple, mainly combining two nouns, but these two nouns need to represent two different ideas and not be naturally related. So "daddy bubbles" and "bye bye train" are both two word phrases, while "thank you" or "bye bye" or "there you go" would count as one word phrases.

These sound like genuine 2 word phrases to me! It's about the child having the cognition to string together a pair of words they know to make a 'sentence' or its own meaning. So yes 'daddy bubbles' and 'bye train' would definitely count as he's strung the words together to give them a more specific meaning. Something that's been learnt as a single phrase however (eg; 'all gone' or 'bless you') wouldn't really count as they've simply learnt these phrases to have a single meaning. It sounds like he's on track If you want to help him along then you're probably best just to respond to his efforts with slightly more elaborate sentences (eg 'oh yes daddy's blowing some bubbles. That looks fun) which you probably do intuitively anyway

Yes those two you mentioned are two word phrases and that's the kind of thing my DS first came out with. Hi/bye Xyz was definitely one of if not the first two word phrase, together with More xyz.