{"id":531,"date":"2007-05-19T08:13:11","date_gmt":"2007-05-19T13:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2007\/05\/19\/more-adventures-in-language-acquistion\/"},"modified":"2007-05-19T11:01:04","modified_gmt":"2007-05-19T16:01:04","slug":"more-adventures-in-language-acquistion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2007\/05\/19\/more-adventures-in-language-acquistion","title":{"rendered":"More adventures in language acquistion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2005\/04\/07\/esther_naomi\/\">Esther<\/a> turned two recently. She&#8217;s come a long way in language acquisition since <a href=\"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2007\/01\/09\/language_acquisition\/\">January<\/a>. Now she is a rich source of linguistics  grammaticality problem sets:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Me: Do you want a hug?<br \/>\nEsther: Yes.<\/p>\n<p>Me: Big hug or little hug?<br \/>\nEsther: None hug.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And, this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Me: What&#8217;s better, music or rugula?<br \/>\nEsther: Rugula and music.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Note that &#8220;rugula&#8221; is not actually the longest word in her vocabulary &#8212; that would probably be &#8220;arboretum.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Our household&#8217;s technology focus is also apparent: any small hook-like device is an &#8220;email.&#8221; For example, a bluetooth headset and a refrigerator hook magnet are both emails. Shorthand for &#8220;another book&#8221; is &#8220;i-book.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esther turned two recently. She&#8217;s come a long way in language acquisition since January. Now she is a rich source of linguistics grammaticality problem sets: Me: Do you want a hug? Esther: Yes. Me: Big hug or little hug? Esther: None hug. And, this morning: Me: What&#8217;s better, music or rugula? Esther: Rugula and music. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}