fun things kids say as first class attention grabbers

[Philip Dale]

It's hard to beat Melissa Bowerman's classic examples of noncausatives used as causatives, e.g., "I'm gonna fall this on you" and "Don't eat her, she's smelly" (don't feed her, she needs her diaper changed).  They get right at the crucial phenomenon of children being wrong in one sense, but not quite wrong in another.
Philip Dale

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Subject: fun things kids say as first class attention grabbers

Hello all,

I like to use attention grabbers the first day of class in my language acquisition courses. I usually mention the fis phenomenon, McNeill and Braine on negative evidence, and some fun errors (for example from Erika Hoff's and Eve Clark's books, with attribution). Students laugh and become really interested in figuring out why kids say the darnedest things.
I was wondering if somebody can share examples that can be used this way or if people have some favorite ones they use.
Thanks all.

Bruno
Bruno Estigarribia
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Research Assistant Professor of Psychology, Cognitive Science Program
Affiliate Faculty, Global Studies
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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