The paper investigates the verbalization of ideational images (individual conceptualizations of situations which the speaker intends the listener to understand) in the speech of a child observed in phase III of language development (between the age of 30 and 34 months). The data from the research show that the ideational images the child uses most freely are of metonymical character; she also begins to employ metaphors. As regards the notions related to the physical world, she points to the basic-level ideational images - the semantic standards. The interaction level of her language is intensely developing at this stage, and she attempts to evaluate the surrounding reality using stereotypes available to her. (Grazyna Sawicka and Alina Kwiatkowska)