Comments on: giant pink dal* http://www.rubberducky.org/blog/2009/06/30/giant-pink-ball/ our digital baby book Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:16:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Rob http://www.rubberducky.org/blog/2009/06/30/giant-pink-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-1560 Rob Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:19:23 +0000 http://www.rubberducky.org/blog/?p=1043#comment-1560 I always hear lots of anecdotes from people saying that kids will correct their parents in the following fashion: Kid. Dal Parent: You want to play with the dal? Kid. No, not Dal, *Dal* I always hear lots of anecdotes from people saying that kids will correct their parents in the following fashion:
Kid. Dal
Parent: You want to play with the dal?
Kid. No, not Dal, *Dal*

]]> By: Marcy http://www.rubberducky.org/blog/2009/06/30/giant-pink-ball/comment-page-1/#comment-1547 Marcy Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:44:13 +0000 http://www.rubberducky.org/blog/?p=1043#comment-1547 Kevin, thanks for the video. I love these questions, too, and I always wish I had been a linguist - but I finished coursework in English when my son was born and I couldn't afford to switch horses at that point, so pragmatic concerns prevailed. I've always been interested, though. I still remember vividly the day my son divided the world into "juice" and "ball." And my favorite syntactic malapropism, as it were, came from my 15-month-old daughter, when we lived in a 2-story+basement house. She used to call me by asking, "What stairs are you?" - a question she derived from my answer: "I'm upstairs" or "I'm downstairs." (Or, "I'm inthebasment." :) Kevin, thanks for the video. I love these questions, too, and I always wish I had been a linguist – but I finished coursework in English when my son was born and I couldn’t afford to switch horses at that point, so pragmatic concerns prevailed. I’ve always been interested, though.

I still remember vividly the day my son divided the world into “juice” and “ball.” And my favorite syntactic malapropism, as it were, came from my 15-month-old daughter, when we lived in a 2-story+basement house. She used to call me by asking, “What stairs are you?” – a question she derived from my answer: “I’m upstairs” or “I’m downstairs.” (Or, “I’m inthebasment.” :)

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