{"id":13581,"date":"2009-08-30T22:20:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T21:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2009-08-30T22:20:33","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T21:20:33","slug":"annas-grammar-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/annas-grammar-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna's grammar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anna’s language is developing rapidly at the moment – my recent posting<\/a> is already out of date.<\/p>\n

However, I feel I should write a bit about her grammar while it’s still simple.<\/p>\n

For a very long time, most of her utterances consisted of one or two words.<\/p>\n

The vocative would be expressed by a name on its own (Dade! Mimi!<\/i>), but in all other cases, the name would be introduced by the copula\/article \u025b<\/i>, in the same way as all other words (\u025b dade<\/i> “It\/that\/he is daddy.” \u025b \u03b2a\u03b2a<\/i> “It’s a flower.” \u025b mi<\/i> “It’s mine!”<\/p>\n

The only other common utterance was a de?<\/i> “What’s that?”<\/p>\n

She then started combining these two sentences: a de \u025b \u03b2a\u03b2a?<\/i> “Is that a flower?” (lit. “What’s that, a flower?”)<\/p>\n

Recently, she started using the a<\/i> and de<\/i> separately, so Phyllis recently was told about Marcel that de \u025b \u025b lal\u0254<\/i> “he is my sibling” (lit. “that is a Charlotte”).<\/p>\n

As I wrote above, her language is changing rapidly at the moment. In particular, she’s starting to repeat words, sentences and even fragments of songs (“Lo, lo, lo, aaaaa!”), so it’s beginning to be harder to decide when she’s copying a sentence she’s heard, and when she’s actually constructing one on her own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Syntax Error – Folded Up Beyond All Recognition Originally uploaded by Simon Pow Anna’s language is developing rapidly at the moment – my recent posting is already out of date. However, I feel I should write a bit about her grammar while it’s still simple. For a very long time, most of her utterances consisted of one or two words. The vocative would be expressed by a name on its own (Dade! Mimi!), but in all other cases, the name would be introduced by the copula\/article \u025b, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,115,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-kids","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}