Keyword: «utterance transformation»

The materials of the article present the diagnostic results of the speech expression development in pre-school children of the fourth year of life with speech tempo delay and with normal speech development. Based on the results of the analysis of diagnostic data obtained during the ascertaining experiment, we identified a number of problems that pre-school children of the fourth year of life with speech tempo delay had in the process of producing utterances. They were the following: speech negativism in some children; predominance of monosyllabic statements over two-, three-, four-syllabic ones; presence of persistent agrammatism; presence of difficulties in identifying the object of perception with an appropriate grammatical category by analogy with the proposed sample; difficulties in sentences transformation; difficulties in the internal programming of utterance and the implementation of syntactic control.