fun things kids say as first class attention grabbers

[Chris and Margie Huber and Pak]

These are from my own daughter's speech; they show her awareness of
compound structure -

age 2 - "This is my jigsaw. I'm sawing some jig."
age 3 (pointing to the back of her knee): "My legpit hurts."

Marjorie Pak, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Program in Linguistics <http://linguistics.emory.edu/home/>
Emory University
Modern Languages 207
404-727-8077


On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Bruno <brunilda at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> 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.
> I was wondering if somebody can share examples that can be used this way
> or if people have some favorite ones they use.
> Thanks all.
>
> Bruno
> Bruno Estigarribia
> Assistant Professor of Spanish, Department of Romance Languages and
> Literatures
> Research Assistant Professor of Psychology, Cognitive Science Program
> Affiliate Faculty, Global Studies
> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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