RWLsearchCuldy

Introduction: This post exemplifies a data-Slice created with a literal-string-search. By way of explanation: this archive involves an infant language study. “Culdy” was the pet name by which the child referred to the family dog. This search extracts all the references to the string “Culdy” in the corpus. comments or questions: How is such a …

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This is the “page within the page” where editor RWLawler can create a search-based or tag-based archive to be used as a draft for a new post.

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3V0747.1

3V0747.01 [Culdy me… bite]; very non-standard form (2/8/80) Peggy came to me after playing with the dog and said “Bite hand” I asked, “Who?” She replied, “Culdy me…bite.” It’s obvious Peggy meant the dog bit her. The agent and patient were named with no intervening pauses. I consider this a clear, natural example of a …

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3V0742.1

3V0742.01 Partly pause-deleted phrases (2/3/80) Peggy produced several phrases today exhibiting compaction by pause deletion – but such [is] not universal: Three examples: “toys… love-em” (at toy box) “Culdy…like-it.” (that mouse again) “find-it” The last has been common in Peggy’s recent speech and might be considered a precursor of the development of compound structure.

3V0736.2

3V0736.02 Culdy’s mouse; apparent possessive (1/28/80) Peggy has been of late forcing the dog’s toy on her, will she or not. With Scurry in the other room, Peggy picked up the toy and very distinctly and precisely named it as “Culdy’s mouse” then ran off to put it on her. This is an uncontestable use …

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3V0729.1

3V0729.01 [bye, X] -> [bye chair]…[bye table]…[by stairs]…(as bedroom entered) [bye bed] [bye culdy]…bye Robby… bye Mimi…(bob, from afar, “what about daddy?”) bye daddy] [bye house…bye car…bye trees…bye house (a neighbor, the car now moving) Going upstairs to have her diapers changed, Peggy recited a litany as we passed.

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Infant Peggy Study, Vignette Catalog: this table lists 780+ text observations by age/date, with titles and links to detail files.