CLA Stages of Development Theorists: Two Word Stage

Question 1

Roger Brown’s Meaning Relations
(1973)

Answer 1

• Identified the syntatic structures of two-word utterances
• Suggested that the combination of words places together follow a limited range of patterns.
• Agent + Action –> Daddy go
• Action + Object –> Make cake
• Agent + Object –> Billy bike
• Action + Location –> Run garden
• Object + Location –> Teddy chair
• Posessor + Posession –> Granny gloves
• Object + Attribute –> Coat soft
• Demonstrative + Object –> Here chair

Question 2

John Braine

Pivot

Answer 2

• At the two word stage, children use utilise patterns of two-word utterancesthat revolve around certain key words.
• Dubbed this a Pivot Schema.
• Children use key words as a ‘pivot’ to generate utterances E.g. ‘allgone dinner,’ and ‘allgone milk,’