fun things kids say as first class attention grabbers

[Celeste Kidd]

I like using YouTube clips for teaching. 

Here's one I use when I talk about "chunking" (acquiring the meaning of a chunk of words together):
http://youtu.be/Fk-1mla0LeU

And another good one for turn-taking, prosody, and pragmatics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRpDilztRBE




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On Aug 22, 2013, at 9:10 AM, Thomas Hills wrote:

> My son once asked, "Dad, can I get a banjo that you play like this?" Then he made the motion for a violin.
> 
> The anecdote is published here:  
> Hills, T. (2012).  The company that words keep: Comparing child and adult-directed language.  Journal of Child Language, 1-19. Available online at doi:10.1017/S0305000912000165.
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 3:44:00 AM UTC+1, Bruno wrote:
> 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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