Chart - Brown's Stages of Language Development
Stage I Sentence Types Operations of Reference Examples Communicative Intent Nomination That car That is a car. Recurrence More juice There is more juice. Negation - denial No wee wee I did not do a wee wee. Negation - rejection No more I don't want more. Negation - non-existence Birdie go The bird has gone. Semantic Relations Examples Communicative Intent Action + Agent Daddy kiss Daddy is kissing. Action + Object Push truck Pushing the truck. Agent + Object Man hat The man (wears) a hat. Action + Locative In bath I am in the bath. Entity + Locative Dolly bed The dolly is on the bed. Possessor + Possession (object) Kim car Kim's car. Entity + Attributive Water hot The water is hot. Demonstrative + Entity This train THIS train (not THAT train). Brown's Stage