fun things kids say as first class attention grabbers

[Katherine Demuth]

Interesting. We've recently reported on two children who exhibit pronoun 
reversal for most of their English 1st and 2nd person pronouns for about 
1 year, raising questions about the extent to which this occurs in other 
languages.
KD

Evans, K. & Demuth, K. 2012. Individual differences in pronoun reversal: 
Evidence from two longitudinal case studies. /Journal of Child 
Language/, 39, 162-191.



On 23/08/13 6:37 PM, Lulu Song wrote:
> My daughter, now 2;3, persistently uses "you" "your" and "yours" 
> instead of "I" "me" "my" or "mine" (in Mandarin). Sometimes the adults 
> would mistakenly think that she's being very generous when she says, 
> "Give you a peach" or "You eat this" or "This is for you" when she's 
> really requesting rather than offering.
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Nan Bernstein Ratner 
> <nratner at umd.edu <mailto:nratner at umd.edu>> wrote:
>
>     My daughter produced  a few nuggets between 1-2 years -- she was a
>     bit precocious:
>
>     Pick you up me (presumably hearing "do you want me to pick you
>     up?" often, so that it became a single verb
>
>     I do it Jamieself
>
>     Just shy of 3, she produced a great slip: the cooken is chicked
>     for the chicken is cooked, which did make me wonder about the
>     morphological status of the --en.
>
>     N
>
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>     <mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com>] *On Behalf Of *Lulu Song
>     *Sent:* Friday, August 23, 2013 10:35 AM
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>     *Subject:* Re: fun things kids say as first class attention grabbers
>
>     I really enjoyed reading the examples everyone so generously
>     shared and I saved all of them. Here's one I use in my class (I
>     might have learned about it from our list):
>
>     "A fairy tale by adorable French girl!"
>
>     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPHgcj0-pXw
>
>     On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Celeste Kidd
>     <ckidd at bcs.rochester.edu <mailto:ckidd at bcs.rochester.edu>> wrote:
>
>     I like using YouTube clips for teaching.
>
>     Here's one I use when I talk about "chunking" (acquiring the
>     meaning of a chunk of words together):
>
>     http://youtu.be/Fk-1mla0LeU
>
>     And another good one for turn-taking, prosody, and pragmatics:
>
>     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRpDilztRBE
>
>     -- 
>     Celeste Kidd
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>     Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester
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>     On Aug 22, 2013, at 9:10 AM, Thomas Hills wrote:
>
>
>
>     My son once asked, "Dad, can I get a banjo that you play like
>     this?" Then he made the motion for a violin.
>
>     The anecdote is published here:
>
>     Hills, T. (2012).  The company that words keep: Comparing child
>     and adult-directed language. /Journal of Child Language/, 1-19.
>     Available online at doi:10.1017/S0305000912000165.
>
>
>     On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 3:44:00 AM UTC+1, Bruno 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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