Linguistics

New sentences

This week we hear new things from Katja: I watched RA two times. push me closer. And what letter is that? D

Mommy wrote it.

Today Katja and I were talking about a new mark on the tag of one of her dolls. She said: “Mommy wrote it.” That is she used the past tense of an irregular verb!

Is and am

Katja has two verbs of note: is and am. Last night we heard “am” for the first time. We heard the response “me am” to “you should be laying on the pillow”.

Color terms

I’m not really sure how my daughter started to learn color terms. How does one learn that the word is not a noun (the name of the object) and is the name of a color?