Friday, March 28, 2008

Of incorrect pronouns and such

Claire-isms:

"David cough-es and sneezes"
"Daddy's at him's office"

There's different ways of looking at her way of speaking.

There's the view that she's speaking incorrectly. Lots of adults hold this view, not only about the ways children speak but also about the ways other, nonmainstream, adults speak.

There's also the view that it's amazing how Claire uses verb tenses and pronouns without ever having been formally taught about them.

I'm going to go with the latter and marvel at how children have an incredible ability to acquire language.

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