<div dir="ltr">You can also find many examples in my chapter in the Bowerman festschrift volume. Here are just a few randomly selected examples, from my daughter and grandchildren:<div><br></div><div>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">Rachel:</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times"> </span><span style="font-family:Times">R:</span><span style="font-family:Times"> </span><span style="font-family:Times">Who’s the marveloust cat in the world?</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">M:What?
[not knowing if there’s a /t/ at end]</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">[R
repeats above 2 times].</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">M:
What?</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">R:Who’s
the best ( marveloust) cat in the world?</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">[M
asks R to say it slowly].</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">[R
says slowly 3 times, last time: ]</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">R:
Who is the mar—ve—lous—t cat in the world? 5;5.17</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">Sadie:</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">[Sadie on toilet:] I think I’m gonna use up a </span><span style="font-family:Times">gallon of that toilet paper! 4;2.2</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">Saul:</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">(36) Saul 4;11.12</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">S: You have 10 fingers and I have 10.</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">M: So who has more?</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">S: You.</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">M: I have more?</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">S: Yes, because yours are bigger. I mean just look
at them!</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">Sadie:</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">V:
[on phone to S, near Christmas time] Did you put up a Christmas tree?</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">S: No. We put a tree in the house.</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">3;5.26</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">Sadie:</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">S:
I so wish we could get that thing out of my butt!</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">M:
The poop?</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">S:
Yeah!</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">3;1.21</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">Sadie:</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">How
old I am is S-A-D-I-E. My name is S-A-D-I-E. 3;2.14</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">Sadie:</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">[V sent Sadie package full of hair clips at
Halloween time. Sadie mentioning how much fun it was to open up the package:] </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">It was so much fun. It was </span><span style="font-family:Times">20 fun! 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, </span><span style="font-family:Times">13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. It takes a long time
to get to 20. </span><span style="font-family:Times"> </span><span style="font-family:Times">3;4.8</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">Is everybody as tired as I am? I’m </span><span style="font-family:Times">150 tired…I’m 199 tired. 3;9.22</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">You’re very lucky. You’re </span><span style="font-family:Times">20 hundred and
750 lucky. 3;9.24</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times"> </span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">[V and Sadie discussing how Sadie was “lost” at a
park one time:]</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">V: But Sadie wasn’t worried. Not one teensy bit.</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="font-family:Times">S: </span><span style="font-family:Times">Not even 2. Not even 3. Not even 4. Not even 5…bit. 3;9.24</span></p><p class=""><span style="font-family:Times"><br></span></p><p class="" style>
<font face="Times">For more examples and explanations, see:</font></p><p class="" style><span lang="EN-GB" style>Gathercole,
Virginia C. Mueller. </span><span lang="ES" style> 2010. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt">"It was so
much fun. It was <u>20</u>
fun!" Cognitive and linguistic
invitations to the development of scalar predicates. In V. C. M. Gathercole </span><span lang="ES" style>(</span><span lang="EN-GB" style>Editor), <i>Routes to language: Studies in honor of
Melissa Bowerman</i>. N.Y.: Psychology Press, Taylor &
Francis. 319-443.</span><br></p>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Elena Nicoladis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:elenan@ualberta.ca" target="_blank">elenan@ualberta.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div><div>My 3.5 French-English bilingual daughter announced one day (in English), "I have a spicy bum!"<br><br></div>Took us hours to figure out that she meant that she meant that she had an itchy bum (spicy = piquant (Fr); piquer (Fr) = to itch).<br>
<br></div>Elena<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Roberta Golinkoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Roberta@udel.edu" target="_blank">Roberta@udel.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Great idea! Will you please share when you collect these?<br><br></div>My grandchild looked down his mom's shirt at her cleavage and said, "That a butt?" He had a gap that needed filling...<br>
<br></div>Best, Roberta<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Bruno <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brunilda@gmail.com" target="_blank">brunilda@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello all,<br><br>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.<br>
I was wondering if somebody can share examples that can be used this way or if people have some favorite ones they use.<br>Thanks all.<br><br>Bruno<br>Bruno Estigarribia<br>Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures<br>
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