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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT color=#800000>Dear CHILDES</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000>Many thanks to the following colleagues
who helped me find a </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000>lost reference that pushes the start of
baby diaries back to the </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000>beginning of the 17th Century (not
Tiedemann near the end of </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000>the 18th century, as I was told when I
was an undergraduate):</FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal> </DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000>David Ingram</FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt">Marie-Thérèse Le
Normand<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000>Joe Stemberger</FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000>Eduardo Blasco Ferrer</FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000>Péter Bodor</FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Palatino">Michèle Guidetti</SPAN> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000>Matthew Rispoli</FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000>Barbara Zurer Pearson</FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000> <o:p></o:p></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000>I asked about a long-term diary record
kept by the personal physician </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000>of a king of France, on the king’s
development. It turns out that the </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000>king </FONT><FONT color=#800000>was
Louis XIII. The paper I had read but was unable to recollect </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000>details of is:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Ingram, D. & Le
Normand, M-T. (1996). A diary study on the acquisition of Middle French:
</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US">A preliminary
report of the early language acquisition of Louis XIII. <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Proceedings of the </I></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">20th annual Boston University conference on
language development</I>, 352-63.</SPAN> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000> <o:p></o:p></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000>Gerhard Ernst, of Regensburg, did
earlier work on the diary: </FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000> <o:p></o:p></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000>Ernst, G. (1985) Gesprochenes
Franzoesisch zu Beginn des 17<BR>Jahrhunderts, Direkte Rede in Jean Héroards
"Histoire particulière de Louis<BR>XIII" (1601-1610), Tubingen, Max Niemeyer
Verlag, X-623pp.<BR><BR>Ernst, G. (1989) le langage du prince. In Foisil (ed),
vol 1, 189-214<BR>Foisil Madeleine (ed) 1989. Journal de Jean Héroards.
Publication du centre<BR>de recherche sur la civilisation de l'Europe moderne, 2
volumes, Paris,<BR>Fayard (Vol 1, 1601-1608; vol 2, 1609-1628)<BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"></FONT><FONT color=#800000>Ernst
apparently had the data published as a supplement to the German </FONT><FONT
color=#800000></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000>journal of Romance philology (Beihefte
zur Zeitschrift fuer romanische </FONT><FONT color=#800000></FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000>Philologie).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal> </DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000>Another paper about this diary is:
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000>Gougenheim, H (1931) L'observation du
langage d'un enfant royal au XVIIe<BR>siècle. Revue de philologie française et
romane, 43, 1-15.</FONT></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000>I was also told about an analysis of the
diaries in Philip Aries' studies <BR>on the history of childhood. </FONT></P>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000>Here’s an abstract of the Ingram and Le
Normand article:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt"><BR><FONT
color=#800000>Early French was markedly different from Modern French. Among its
properties are that it was pro drop, allowed the inversion of verbs and lexical
subjects in questions, and had V2 word order. All of these properties have been
lost in Modern French. The process of how these changes took place in Middle
French have been speculated upon in Clark & Robert (1993), but no language
acquisition data have been brought to bear upon them.<BR>The possibility for
examining questions such as these ones, as well as others, has arisen with the
recent discovery of a diary on the language acquisition of Louis XIII
(1601-1643). Louis's physician kept a daily diary on his development from his
birth in 1601 until the physician's death in 1628. This paper is a preliminary
report on the diary, focussing on the entries for the first four years of
Louis'life. The central focus will be descriptive, i.e. presenting information
on the general characteristics of the diary data. In addition, some preliminary
analyses will be presented on the nature of Louis' language in relation to the
properties of French which were under change in Middle French.<BR
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt">With gratitude,</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=#800000><SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt">Patrick
Griffiths<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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