The dialogue in its ontogenesis: the formation of the types of the dialogical unities in the speech of German pre-school children

The stages of the formation of the communicational competence of German pre-school children are examined by example of the development of the types of dialogical unities, amplification of their structure, the structural correspondence of the replies of the communicational partners at the age of 2 to 3 years. The emphasis is made on the bonds of the adult replies and child ones in the micro-dialogues and in the responses of the German-speaking child.