PRONOUNS |
Sample utterances of one child from earliest use 1 ; 8 to 5 ; 2 |
我的 [我 then rare until 2 ;3] | 1; 8 |
A: You know Baba's
money is your money
C: Mines |
1; 10 |
C: Baba hold you [=
"Baba hold me]
A: You want to hold me? C: Hold me |
1; 11 |
Zap you…printer zap
you..printer zap you
[Based on oft-repeated adult warning to keep his hands and face away from the printer: "The printer will zap you"] |
1; 11 |
Red one…blue one [Referring to pens] | 1; 11 |
Little one…big one [Comparing two tape measures] | 1; 11 |
One more | 2 ; 0 |
A: That's Mama's
tea..You want some?
C: Danny 要 some |
2 ; 0 |
Baba, open it [Request to open his toy camera] | 2 ; 0 |
打你 | 2 ; 2 |
我不跟你玩了 | 2 ; 3 |
A: Can you make a
table like these?
C: Yeah A: Can you? I can't C: I can't A: No C: I can't ..Mama can't ..Baba can't |
2 ; 5 |
Baba you writing note | 2 ; 6 |
Baba 我們一起弄 lion, 好不好? | 2 ; 7 |
新娘子在我的旁邊…我要帶她去吃飯 | 2 ; 8 |
C: Baba turtle
好可憐
A: What happened? |
2 ; 7 |
2 ; 8 | |
C: Cricket
會咬人嗎?
A: No |
2 ; 8 |
2;10 | |
A: What's
this?
C: Yours! Like [miz]! [Father and son both had ties toy] |
2; 10 |
我自己 get in [into the bathtub] | 2; 11 |
C2: You say he, Danny [C2 is his cousin, age 2 ; 11; reference is to a male toy] |
3 ; 4 |
Whose this paper? | 3 ; 5 |
3; 11 | |
C: Baba you want more
carrots?
A: Yeah, put them in my sandwich |
4 ; 0 |
C: Aunt Dusty is her A: Yeah. She C: Uncle Steve got a 怪手? [setting up toys] |
4 ; 4 |
A:
You don't know her? She knows you
C: She knows me, but I don't know him. Her..I'm him she's her [ A girl in the park called his name; he ignored her] |
5 ; 0 |
C:
He don't wants to come, can I go to their house?
A: She doesn't want to come C: She..he don't wants to come A: she C: She don't wants to come, can I go to their house to eat dinner? [referring to female friend] |
5 ; 2 |