As children move beyond the telegraphic period into more sophisticated use of grammar, morphemes such as -ing and -s are acquired before morphemes such as -ed and -'s.What does Brown attribute this order to?

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Brown attributes the order of morpheme acquisition to their semantic complexity, with less semantically complex morphemes like -ing and -s being acquired before more complex ones like -ed and -'s.

As Children Move Beyond the Telegraphic Period into More Sophisticated