Me: *singing with (over?) the Moana soundtrack*
5yo: stop it Abba! You can’t make me hear the music!
[You make me neg can hear the music]

#parenting #linguistics #syntax #raising #negation #LangAcq #LanguageAcquisition

4yo: you want a sausage dog?

#linguistics #langsky #english #LangAcq #overgeneration ? (Help, #linguists, how do you call this thing here?) #parenting

4yo complaining while I shlep her around to see the Seattle tree lights:
“half my foot is colding!”

#linguistics #langsky #english #LangAcq #overgeneration #parenting