Baby's an It (call of the obstetrician?)

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On Sep 10, 2008, at 10:18 AM, i wrote:

>> i'm not sure if i've posted anywhere on this (though i've intended
> to), but my daughter notes that toddlers' use of their names for self-
> reference comes up repeatedly on parenting discussion sites,...

i did, here on ADS-L, in an illeism discussion last year, under the
heading Re: FN + LN; the relevant posting was on 6/6/07:

   http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0706A&L=ADS-L&P=R10258&I=-3

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