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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>A conversation between my brother in law and my Nephew, Eithan, when he was 6 years old (French speaking child):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Father: Est ce que quelqu’un a vue l’entonnoir? (=Did someone find/see the funnel?) (also noir is ‘black’ in French)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Eithan: Je n’ais pas vue “l’entonne noir” mais “j’ais vue l’entonne orange” (I didn’t find the “l’entonne noir (=black)” but I saw “l’entonne orange” (The color of their funnel is orange)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Best<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Limor<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Dr. Limor Adi-Bensaid (PhD)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Faculty of Health Profession<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Ono Academic College<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Israel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> info-childes@googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes@googlegroups.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Susan Gelman<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 21, 2013 9:51 PM<br><b>To:</b> info-childes@googlegroups.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: fun things kids say as first class attention grabbers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Molly, which car? Audi?? <br><br>On Wednesday, August 21, 2013, Molly Millians wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>I taught first grade many years ago. A group of 6 and 7 year old's were looking at a kid's book of the human body. After a few minutes, 1 child exclaimed, "Oh my god, they named a car after that!" <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Morgan, James <<a href="mailto:james_morgan@brown.edu">james_morgan@brown.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hi Bruno,<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>In addition to other things, I like to tell the following story about my daughter:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>When my daughter was 19 months old, her productive vocabulary consisted of four words: "mama", "dada", "yaya" (gloss 'doll'), and "wawa" (gloss 'dog'). She was far below age norms (and parental expectations!), and we were beginning to worry about possible language delay.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Fast forward four short months: on the way out of the pediatrician's office following her 2-year-old check-up, she turned to me and said (not her first sentence by any means, but a particularly memorable one), "You know, Dad, what I like about going to the doctor's office is getting to play with all of the toys in the waiting room."<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I use this anecdote showing developmental change as a springboard into discussion of any number of topics: rapidity and uneven tempo of development, individual differences in development, differences between production and comprehension, dangers in basing accounts of acquisition exclusively on production data, and so forth.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Best,<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'> Jim<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>James Morgan<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Professor<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Bruno <<a href="mailto:brunilda@gmail.com">brunilda@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-right:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>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>Research Assistant Professor of Psychology, Cognitive Science Program<br>Affiliate Faculty, Global Studies<br>University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#888888'>-- <br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group.<br>To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to <a href="mailto:info-childes+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com">info-childes+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a>.<br>To post to this group, send email to <a href="mailto:info-childes@googlegroups.com">info-childes@googlegroups.com</a>.<br>To view this discussion on the web visit <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/42646b01-77be-4296-b219-44a3798942c5%40googlegroups.com" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/42646b01-77be-4296-b219-44a3798942c5%40googlegroups.com</a>.<br>For more options, visit <a href="https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group.<br>To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to <a href="mailto:info-childes+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com">info-childes+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a>.<br>To post to this group, send email to <a href="mailto:info-childes@googlegroups.com">info-childes@googlegroups.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>To view this discussion on the web visit <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/CABmr1p9Px%2BbOyM9xrG4%3DuiVYJZNysH31rDt5DKpQy%2B1AqQxtvw%40mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/CABmr1p9Px%2BbOyM9xrG4%3DuiVYJZNysH31rDt5DKpQy%2B1AqQxtvw%40mail.gmail.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>For more options, visit <a href="https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out" target="_blank">https://groups.</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>To view this discussion on the web visit <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/CACZjGG8LeH4jvFxw-MLFck5Z2inLrBrMycdQKGFPpXUguH576w%40mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/info-childes/CACZjGG8LeH4jvFxw-MLFck5Z2inLrBrMycdQKGFPpXUguH576w%40mail.gmail.com</a>.<br>For more options, visit <a href="https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Susan A. 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