<div dir="ltr"><span class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><div dir="ltr">Yesterday, my four year old <span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">child</span> said "if I'm talking about myself only, I'm a <span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">children</span>. But if I'm talking about me and Edward, we are childs because we are two." When I asked him where he heard the word 'childs', he said 'sometimes you say this is another <span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">child</span>'s bag'.<div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Tom Roeper <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:roeper@linguist.umass.edu" target="_blank">roeper@linguist.umass.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">Here's a few from my book Prism of Grammar (and from my children):<div><br></div><div>at 3yrs my son said, when he had a stomach ache:</div><div> "there's a fire-engine in my stomach"<br>
<div><br></div><div>my daughter said one day:</div><div> "My mind is very angry, and so am I"</div><div>when I asked my son why he is good at chess he said:</div><div> "because I use my brain, instead of thinking"</div>
</div><div>or his first use of recursion:</div><div> "I am not as tall as you as Mom"</div><div><br></div><div>These allow us to think a little bit,don't they---</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Roeper</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">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>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im"><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><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><div>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>
</div></div><div><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Great idea! Will you please share when you collect these?<br>
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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><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><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><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><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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