Brown

Question 1

Who is brown? What is his theory?

Answer 1

Psycholinguistic who focuses on the relationship between language and cognitive development.
Emphasise on the need for both social and cognitive factors in language acquisition.
Language development comes from the interaction of innate structures and environmental inputs.

Question 2

What did he find in the 5 stages of development

Answer 2

Length of sentences (mlu) increased as their language skills developed.
Children make virtuous errors but despite this used the correct word order supporting biological factors

Question 3

What are morphemes?

Answer 3

Morphemes are the smallest units of meaning in a language. They convey meanings and can change the meaning of a word or its grammatical function.
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Question 4

Browns 5 stages of language development (15-30 months)

Answer 4

Joining two words, referred to as telegraphic stage (e.g. teddy gone)

Question 5

Browns stages of language developments (28-36 months)

Answer 5

Naming of objects, describing experiences with use of “ing” endings (e.g. “coming”) the inclusion of “In” and “on” and us of s plurals (e.g. cars)

Question 6

Browns stages of language developments (36-42 months)

Answer 6

Using past tense (e.g. ‘went’) and possessives (e.g. ‘mummy’s car)

Question 7

Browns stages of language developments (40-46 months)

Answer 7

Speaking sentences with more complex use of past tense (e.g. ‘jumped) and articles (e.g. ‘a’, ‘the’)

Question 8

Browns stages of language developments (42-52+ months)

Answer 8

Making more complex sentences with the use of contractions (e.g. ‘we’ve’) and third person irregular (e.g ‘he does’)

Question 9

Use in modern early years practice

Answer 9

Helpful to understand the sequence children develop the use of grammar in speech
Sequence children learn English
Children are logical in their speech and word order from an early age
Could help determine delay or disorder.