Language

[cifarelli]

Corwin has for the last few weeks been exhibiting one of the steps in language development that has always fascinated me in theory. He's actually LEARNING the language, and not just repeating what he hears other people say

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[onefishclappin]

The misapplication stage has always fascinated me as well. But it goes on for a while - Matthew is still learning irregular verbs.

[liz_gregory]

I love it, too. We have mini-conversations with Peter about verbs, mostly, because we have so many irregular ones, but also about sentence structure, and, previously, pronouns.

Now Elissa is starting her first major verbal hurricane - she will point to a picture in a book that we have read many times (the alphabet book that has the letter, a picture, then the name of the picture, for each letter) and say the name of it. At least partially intelligibly, but only because we're looking at the picture she is trying to name.

Fascinating! Usually second children talk later because they have a "translator" in their older sibling. She's actually verbalizing more quickly than Peter did!