The girl made her first real attempt to have what she said be understood. Specifically, she said a word, and I repeated it back to her, then she repeated it back to me, over and over until I finally said what she believed she was saying.
It went something a bit like this:
bɨts
bits?
bɨts
please?
bɨts
peas?
bɨts
base?
bɨts
pans?
bɨts
bitch?
bɨts
bats?
(smiles) bɨts!
bats
(smiles more) bɨts!!!
bats
(smug) bɨts
Oh, "bats"… You means these?
(I point to the monkeys on her dinner tray)
bɨts
I'd pointed to her tray which has a picture of monkeys hanging upside-down from a branch. She's clearly decided that these are bats since her only experience with hanging animals comes from Stellaluna.
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