" (Milk gone [on] carpet, Papa [said] "Fie!") The
words adopted by the child have often a very different meaning from that
which they have in the language of adults, being not entirely
misunderstood but peculiarly interpreted by the imitator. Thus,
pronouns, which are not for a long time yet understood in their true
sense, signify objects themselves or their qualities. _Dein bett_ means
"the large bed."
In the twenty-sixth month a large picture-book, with good colored
pictures, was shown to the child by me every day. Then he himself would
point out the separate objects represented, and those unknown to him
were named to him, and then the words were repeated by him. Thus were
obtained the following results:
Said to him. His imitation.
Blasebalg (bellows), _ba-a-bats_, _blasabalitz_.
Saugflasche (nursing-bottle), _augflaze_.
Kanone (cannon), _nanone_.
Koffer (trunk), _towwer_, _toffer_, _pfoffa_,
_poffa_, _toff-wa_.
Fuchs (fox), _fuhts_.
Kaffeekanne (coffee-urn), _taffeetanne_, _pfafee-tanne_.
Frosch (frog), _frotz_.
Klingel (bell), _linli_ (learned as _ingeling_
and _linlin_).
Besen (broom), _b[=e]sann_, _beedsen_,
_beedsenn_.
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