| Clue | Theorists | Years |
| Studied Childrens Language Development between 20 and 36 months | |
| Divided the Acquisition of inflections into 3 stages | |
| Thought up the first stages of development | |
| Mean length of an utterance | |
| Found that if parents talk more the child had larger vocabularies | |
| Found that children in the holophrastic stage who get feedback from parents advance slower than those who dont | |
| Found that parents respond to the truth value of what their baby is saying | |
| When a child misses a letter such as 'fis' ment to be 'fish' | |
| Children learn to talk by talking and read by reading | |
| Identified 7 stages of childrens writing | |
| Recognised 4 stages of writing development | |