P150

Peggy Study, Panel P150 Themes: Language Development, Object Exploration, Social Interactions Source: (Lawler); date: 12/6/1980 Title: Text commentary: These clips appear to show Peggy distinguishing between objects and symbols and “good toys,” her Fisher-Price people, to whom she can attribute intentions and about whom she can weave action sequences and possibly stories, eventually. P150A Intro: …

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3V1056.1

3V1056.01 Counting objects for herself (12/6/80) What I remember as significant about this episode was Peggy’s putting her fingers and the number names into 1-1 correspondence. Now she can “count” (as documented below) but the limits of her correspondence appears to be TWO. But that fact that she attempts correspondence at all shows a preliminary …

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3V1054.1

3V1054.01 Generalizations: “nightgowns has no pockets on them” (12/11/80) This evening Peggy came near me, “Nightgowns has no pockets on them,” she said. Looking at my shirt, she continued, “Shirts does but nightgowns never do.”