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What did Brown notice about children’s language in its early stages? |
Children made tense errors, e.g. sheeps, but words were in the grammatically correct order |
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How many stages of language development Brown suggest? |
5 |
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What does MLU stand for and mean? |
Mean length utterances The average number of words a child |
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What is a morpheme? |
Unit of grammar Boy – one unit Boyish – two units |
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What type of speech to children use at Browns stage one, age 15–30 months? |
Telegraphic – joining words Teddy gone |
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What type of speech do children use at Browns stage two, age 28 to 36 months? |
Naming of objects – tree, dog In and on Lots of plurals – cars Ing endings – coming, playing |
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What type of speech do children use at Browns stage three, age 36–42 months? |
Past tense – went Possessives - mummy’s car |
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What type of speech do children use at Brown’s stage four, age 40–46 months? |
Speaking sentences Complex use of past tense – jumped Articles – a, the |
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What type of speech do children use at Browns stage five, age 42–52+ months? |
Complex sentences Contractions – we’ve Third person irregular – he does |
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How does Browns stages of language development benefit EYP’s? |
It helps to identify delays in language development when children do not meet milestones by a certain age |
