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Roger William Brown
Roger William Brown
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It is certain that biographers are most likely to select his summary of the first stage of the acquisition of English as his seminal work, while simultaneously praising his ability to attract so many bright scholars to the study of language clevelopment. Yet, his first teaching assignment in 1952 was as a social psychologist at Harvarc!
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on our species. With David McNeill, Roger asked students to guess the wore!
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Although his fans, students, and colleagues alike admired his discoveries and smiled at his graceful sentences, fewer have commented on the moral authority he brought to academic settings. I watched Roger year after year listen quietly during a heated faculty discussion on a controversial issue, and then, at the perfect time, in a pace neither hurried nor hesitant, express his opinion.
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cloctoral degrees at the University of Michigan, the last in 1952. Although his doctoral research was on the social psychology of the authoritarian personality, a popular topic after the Second World War, the retention of a special curiosity about language renclerec!
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following research by Brent Berlin en c! Paul Kay on the color words user!
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by Harvarc! University Press in ~ 973, generated a large number of provocative generalizations, even though it did not explain completely how children acquired language.
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that parents clo not praise sentences that are syntactically correct nor criticize those that are grammatically wrong. Rather, most parents react primarily to whether the chilcl's sentence is true or false.
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that some verbs ascribe causality to their targets Bill admires Sam because Sam is acimirable whereas others ascribe causality to their subjects Bill charms Sam because Bill is charming. However, he learner!
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resistant to logical analysis, one must reject simple stereotypes as appropriate descriptions of the warren of feelings, thoughts, en c! symbols that are the skeleton of the human psyche.
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Scientific Achievement Awarc! of the American Psychological Association in 1971, en c!
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1973 A First Language: The Early Stages. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
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47-59. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
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