The Data TherapistMe: *singing with (over?) the Moana soundtrack*
5yo: stop it Abba! You can’t make me hear the music!
[You make me neg can hear the music]
#parenting #linguistics #syntax #raising #negation #LangAcq #LanguageAcquisition
4yo: you want a sausage dog?
#linguistics #english #LangAcq #overgeneration ? (Help, #linguists, how do you call this thing here?) #parenting
4yo complaining while I shlep her around to see the Seattle tree lights:
“half my foot is colding!”
3yo: *pointing the hose towards the sky, spraying us all, humans and plants of this world*
3yo: Abba, I’m mashke’ing the plants too!
(Watering the plants)
Me: hello, bilingual inflection world!
#linguistics #english #hebrew #bilingual #inflection #langAcq #parenting
#עברית #בלשנות #הורות #דולשוני
3yo: Abba, can you Lbash your sandals?
#bilingual #linguistics #langAcq
#Hebrew #English #parenting
#בלשנות #עברית #הורות #רכישתשפה
3yo holding a walnut to her ear like a shell 🐚 : “you can hear it the birds!”
3yo *picks up hotel phone 📞 *
3yo: Hello? Is this everybody speaking?