Read the following extract very carefully. This transcript is a conversation between Katherine at 27 months and her mother. Consider the aspects of the baby’s speech: ability to use verbs (tenses, tag questions); functions and conversational (pragmatic) skills; use of inflexions; the MLU, the comparing the score with Brown’s stages (see page 3 of Myszor); negatives; questions. Use the systematic framework, to complete a full analysis of the transcript.
Extract: Key: the transcript has been simplified. Only longer pauses have been shown, eg (3). Otherwise conventional punctuation has been used. K= the baby. M= the mother
1 K: What did you say? (2)
2 M: Didn’t say anything (2) What do you want to do? (2)
3 K : Does it open?
4 M: Er yes.
5 K: Oh, ah, aaaahhhh! I o…., I uh…I want to do that, didn’t I.
6 M: What did you do? What did you do, Katherine? Did you open it?
7 K: Yeh. Took this out. Me took this out. This one out. Look, look, what, look what it’s got on its front.
8 M: What has it got?
9 K: It’s got lady with those long things on. That’s a bit funny.
10 M: Mmm. What else has it got?
11 K: What’s those…? What’re they? What’re they? What’re they, Mummy?
12 M: What’re what?
13 K: Those bottles.
14 M: Show me.
15 K: There.
16 M: Um. It’s just a picture of some bottles. I’m not sure what is there.
17 K: What’s in there?
18 M: I’m not sure. What do you think?
19 K: I d’know. (3)
20 M: Shall we put it back?
21 K: No (5) I want to do some of that, please (4) Can I have a piece of paper please?
22 M: No,
23 K: Thank you.
24 M: What are you going to do?
25 K: I’m going to draw a picture of somebody, okay.
26 M: Mm huh.
27 K: Somebody who’s black.
28 M: Okay.
29 K: Who’s called Jesse.
30 M: Oh I see.
31 K: We haven’t got pi….black today, have we.
32 M: No, that’s red. Do you want me to get you a black?
33 K: Yes, please.
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