Con este artículo queremos rendir homenaje a la figura de Roger Brown, fallecido en Diciembre de 1997, y hacer un resumen de su obra que fue pionera en los estudios sobre adquisición del lenguaje. En la década de los 60 Roger Brown constituyóun equipo de investigación que se planteó como tarea descubrir los mecanismos por los cuales los niños desarrollan el lenguaje. Los trabajos de Roger Brown plantearon los principales temas de la Psicolingüística evolutiva en cuanto a la adquisición del léxico y de la sintaxis: relación entre desarrollo del vocabulario y desarrollo conceptual, influencia de la sintaxis en la adquisición del léxico, estadios y procesos en la adquisición de la sintaxis, papel del input, participación de los padres en la adquisición. Desarrolló como métodos principales el análisis del lenguaje espontáneo en situaciones de interacción y el estudio experimental en tareas de comprensión, y definió la longitud media de los enunciados (LME) como una medida adecuada del desarrollo morfo-sintáctico.
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