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[Carolyn Chaney]

Hi Michael,

There are several sources cited in my paper "Language Sevelopment,
metalinguistic skills and print awareness in 3-year-old children," APPLIED
PSYCHOLINGUISTICS, 1992, p. 485-514.  Some of the children studied in this
research were older twos, also.

In addition I have an upublished paper, "A cognitive Developmental
analysis of toddler's jokes," that looks at kid's jokes from 13 months -
36 mos.  There are some good examples of early incongruities that produce
great laughs in kids, and the specific example that you mention was
observed at 24 months (calling a giraffe a dog).  Send me your address if
you want a copy.  Maybe I'll get around to publishing this some day.

Carolyn Chaney

On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Michael Tomasello wrote:

> Can anyone direct me to studies or reports of young children - the
> younger the better (2 years?) - playing with words or other linguistic
> structures "knowingly" in either comprehsnion or production.  I am
> thinking of very simple things like participating with an adult in
> calling a giraffe an elephant (or some other such silliness) and then
> laughing about it together.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Mike Tomasello
>
>