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Katherine update
May. 6th, 2005 12:44 amOkay, I realize that I didn't do the quick Katherine post that I said I was going to do, so here it is now while I work out some thoughts for another post I want to make.
I keep thinking that any day now I'm going to be able to post about Katherine taking her first independent steps, but that just isn't happening. She just doesn't have the balance (and that probably means ankle strength) to stand independently. She can cruise the furniture pretty well, and will take some steps with us if we hold her arms up - it's a bit like walking a marionette - but doesn't like doing that, and wants to drop to her knees and crawl.
Which is understandable, because she's pretty darn fast at the crawling. She's also very good at the climbing, and has no problems crawling the entire staircase in one burst. (She also can back down the staircase safely, though these days it's more of a feet-first controlled belly slide rather than the backwards crawling she started with) She has no problems pulling herself up onto the sofa or the coffee tables in the TV room, despite the fact that both of those involve climbing upon something that's as tall as her belly-button. And when for some reason she's too tired to be successful with that, she's learned the word "up".
Which brings me to what I really wanted to talk about - language acquisition. Katherine knows about 10 or so words now, and this is an attempt to document them so that we'll know later.
Words are listed in approximate order of acquisition. When I use IPA, I'm looking at the "standard scheme" from this page
( Let's not muck up friends pages with the table now )
She also will go through her repertoire from time to time for no apparent reason, along with several multisyllable sounds that may or may not have meaning. She'll babble [mɑmɑmɑmɑmɑm] sometimes, and we've been trying to interpret that as "mama", but she doesn't use it consistently enough for us to be sure. (We're already certain that saying that she was saying "daddy" several weeks ago was premature) Another favorite bit to repeat over and over is [ɒbiː']; no ideas there either.
update: fixed some transcription errors.
I keep thinking that any day now I'm going to be able to post about Katherine taking her first independent steps, but that just isn't happening. She just doesn't have the balance (and that probably means ankle strength) to stand independently. She can cruise the furniture pretty well, and will take some steps with us if we hold her arms up - it's a bit like walking a marionette - but doesn't like doing that, and wants to drop to her knees and crawl.
Which is understandable, because she's pretty darn fast at the crawling. She's also very good at the climbing, and has no problems crawling the entire staircase in one burst. (She also can back down the staircase safely, though these days it's more of a feet-first controlled belly slide rather than the backwards crawling she started with) She has no problems pulling herself up onto the sofa or the coffee tables in the TV room, despite the fact that both of those involve climbing upon something that's as tall as her belly-button. And when for some reason she's too tired to be successful with that, she's learned the word "up".
Which brings me to what I really wanted to talk about - language acquisition. Katherine knows about 10 or so words now, and this is an attempt to document them so that we'll know later.
Words are listed in approximate order of acquisition. When I use IPA, I'm looking at the "standard scheme" from this page
( Let's not muck up friends pages with the table now )
She also will go through her repertoire from time to time for no apparent reason, along with several multisyllable sounds that may or may not have meaning. She'll babble [mɑmɑmɑmɑmɑm] sometimes, and we've been trying to interpret that as "mama", but she doesn't use it consistently enough for us to be sure. (We're already certain that saying that she was saying "daddy" several weeks ago was premature) Another favorite bit to repeat over and over is [ɒbiː']; no ideas there either.
update: fixed some transcription errors.