LINGUIST List 5.725

Wed 22 Jun 1994

Sum: Another one spoon

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1. , another one spoon-summary and thanks

Thanks to all who responded to my query about the child language example
in which a child asks for "another one spoon". Since more than one person
asked for the same information when I got it, I thought I would post the
full correct citation. The exchange comes from a paper by Martin D.S. Braine
as follows:

"On Two Types of Models of the Internalization of Grammars" which appeared
in Dan Slobin's edited collection, The Ontogenesis of Grammar: A Theoretical
Symposium, published in 1971 by Academic Press (New York). The paper appears
on pages 153-186, with the relevant dialogue discussed on p. 160-161. The
child's actual phrase, by the way is "...other one spoon." Since Braine is
describing a conversation with his own child, I assume this is the full and
accurate source.

I had many respondents from as far away as Cape Town and British Columbia s
as well as in the US. Thanks again.
Alice Horning