Brown's 14 Morphemes primarily describe aspects of which language component?

• A. Phonology
• B. Morphology
• C. Syntax
• D. Semantics

Answer: (B)

These markers show how words are marked to add grammatical information such as tense, number, possession, and agreement. Brown's 14 Morphemes are a classic set of grammatical markers that appear in early English speech, and they’re used to study how morphology—the structure of words and the way they’re formed—develops in children. They explain how a word changes form to express meaning or relation (for example, adding -ing for present progressive, -s for plurals, or 's for possession). These are word-formation and agreement cues, not about sounds (phonology), sentence order (syntax), or word meanings (semantics). That focus on word structure and its grammatical markers is why the correct component is morphology.