The peculiarities of children's speech manipulation (based on the speech of preschoolers)

The article discusses the issues concerning the classification of the phenomenon of speech manipulation, functioning in the verbal behavior of preschool children. It reveals the features that distinguish children's speech manipulation from the adults' one. Besides, the article presents the facts of the speech of preschool children, illustrating the main characteristics of speech manipulation, such as the duality of goal setting and the rigid contextual conditioning of manipulative statements.