P100

Peggy Study, Panel P100 Themes: Language Development, Object Exploration, Social Interaction Source: (Lawler); date: 12/24/1979 Title: Text commentary: These clips show ??; Why important ?? P100A1 Reading London Bridge, GPL, 17mb P100A2 Reading Brittanica Book, GPL, 9mb P100A3 Reading London Bridge, GPL, 12mb P100B1 Puzzle Box, 16mb P100B2 Puzzle Box, 20mb P100C Building Blocks, 18mb …

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3V0706.3

3V0706.03 [fork!…for-me]: example of bound preposition (12/29/79) Peggy sat in her high chair. Miriam had made an open faced cheese sandwich and given two pieces to Peggy. It is our custom to eat such fare with our fingers. Peggy had put her fork on the table beyond immediate reach. Other of us ate food with …

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3V0706.2

3V0706.02 Puppy in Boston: default location of “gone” animate things (12/29/79) Over the past several weeks, Peggy has often given evidence of distinguishing between the sound of a bark and the word as the name of the sound. One of the puzzles Peggy received for Christmas was a five piece Puppy puzzle. Peggy came crawling …

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3V0706.1

3V0706.01 Knock knock jokes: story used in ACR chapter of CECD. (12/29/79) Jokes have been much in the air lately. I’ve worked on OCL: Inventing Jokes. Miriam made me a joke book as a Christmas present. Peggy has begun telling knock-knock jokes, apparently in imitation (without instruction): Peggy: knock-knock ? Victim: Who’s there ? Peggy: …

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3V0705.1

3V0705.01 Social Shaping of utterance word order change 12/28/79 (see 12/22/79) Today Peggy remarked “Drop…hat…water.” [Usually when she points to this and says whatever, I respond “Yes. The man dropped his hat into the water.” Later on, she phrased it “drop…water…hat” Coming back from Gordy’s, Bob made some remark about beer. Peggy immediately cried “pop-pop …

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3V0704.1

3V0704.01 Playing the piano. (12/27/79) Often since her early infancy, Peggy would come to me while I sat at the piano and ask to come up with me. It has been my practice to then play “chopsticks” with the middle range of the piano free for Peggy’s playing with me. I have shaped her playing …

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3V0703.2

3V0703.02 Adjectives and Causes “shitty…toilet…diaper…init.” (12/26/79) Carried past the bathroom where her newly removed diaper was soaking: “shitty…toilet…diaper…init.” Gretchen.

3V0703.1

3V0703.01 [Mimi…mad…Mimi…fall down] Expressed speculation. (12/26/79) Miriam has been playing with her old set of infant size legos which we gave Peggy for a Christmas present. She has tried through much of the day to construct a mobile dog (dragon?) and failed with amazing consistency. Lately cries of “awg !!” have been coming down from …

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3V0701.1

3V0701.01 [Mine…Peggy…Peggy’s…back]:clear use of a possessive, but one where syntactic structure is decidedly subordinate to the context; Peggy’s picture (12/24/79) I bought some Polaroid film the other day and today had taken a picture of Peggy sitting with me in my chair. I set it on the piano to develop completely. when her image appeared, …

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3V0700.2

3V0700.02 Knives and spoons: learning the word “fork”; called initially a spoon; when I named the object as fork, she called it a “foon”; counting incident. (12/23/79) When the dishwasher cycle ended, I asked Miriam to put away the dishes. Helpful Peggy was easily recruited. She started selecting silverware from the dishwasher and carried it …

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3V0700.1

3V0700.01 [apples…all gone] (12/23/79) Peggy has been sick the last few days — running nose, cough and excessive vomiting. We decided to regularize her diet by removing the large bag of apple I recent bought from Bishop’s Orchard. Peggy has been eating enormous quantities of apples (for one her size). I removed that bag in …

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