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



A: He 

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