Two word stage Flashcards
What types of words are most likely to appear in the child’s vocabulary?
nouns, verbs and adjectives
What sort of words do they omit?
verb endings articles (definite and indefinite) prepositions the verb "to be" auxiliary verbs
Who did research to support this (word combinations)
Roger Brown
What did Brown find?
A set of different two word combinations that children would commonly use at this stage in language development
What were these two word combinations
doer+action action+undergoer doer+undergoer possesor+thing property+thing action+location
What grammatical form does “doer+action” take
subject+verb
“I walk”
doer+action
What grammatical form does “action+undergoer” take
verb+object
“Eat dinner”
action+undergoer
What grammatical form does “doer+undergoer” take
subject+object
this is where the child will omit the verb that is happening to the object
“Dolly dinner”
doer+undergoer
What grammatical form does “possesor+thing” take
Both usually are nouns
“My shoe”
possesor+thing
What grammatical form does “property+thing” take
usually adjective+noun
“Naughty car”
property+thing
