5yo: I ever let you sing!
Us: why won’t you let us sing?
5yo: no, I’ll *ever* let you sing!

#parenting #English #overgeneration #morphology #backDerivation #linguistics

בת5: אבא יש עֲצָמָה! לבוא! עֲצָמָה של סיגל!
אני: (מנצל את ההזדמנות לסיים פגישה וירטואלית שהתארכה מעבר) מה?
בת5: עֲצָמָה!!
אני:
בת5:
אני: אההה עצם של שחף! אני בא!

#הורות #דולשוני #עברית #רכישת_שפה
#parenting #Hebrew #English #codeswitching #bilingual #overgeneration
#linguistics

4.5yo: after I’m five, I’ll be thirteen, and then nineteen, and then secondteen!

#parenting #overgeneration #english #linguistics

Parent2: did you know that Abba used to be an opera singer?
4.5yo: Abba, can you show me how you opera’d?

#parenting #linguistics #overgeneration #English

4.5yo cutting a toy cucumber and offering it to the make-believe baby: do you want the stem side or the un-stem side?

#parenting #english #linguistics #overgeneration

4yo looking at me with a critical look (presumably after I did something wrong at the table): you are not very learnish!

#parenting #language #LanguageAcquisition #OverGeneration #English #linguistics

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!”

#linguistics #english #LangAcq #overgeneration #parenting

4yo walking, holding a long stick
“This is the follow directioner!”

#parenting #productivity #overgeneration #linguistics