Baby marcie recently surprised her mother by saying, "me milk."
this first word-combining stage is called speech, and marcie is probably

a. holophrasic; one-year-old
b. telegraphic; between one & a half and 2 years old
c. babbling; two years old
d. cooing; two years old

The correct options that could be used in the blanks are:

a. Holophrastic; one year old.

Baby Marcie recently surprised her mother by saying, "me milk."  This first word-combining stage is called holophrastic speech, and Marcie is probably one year old.

Explanation:

The period of learning of a child in which he makes amalgams of words he hears from his parents is called holophrastic and with these, he tries to communicate complete ideas, in the case of the example, possibly with the words "me milk" means "give me milk", words that she has heard from her mother before and now used shortly to communicate, these first linguistic units usually appear from twelve months of age (or one year).