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Title: How I kept my baby well
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Noyes, Anna Bogert Gausmann, 1873-
Subjects: Infants Infant Care Child Welfare
Publisher: Baltimore, Warwick & York, inc.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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of saying Such agood dinner. (Age, twenty-one months.) 366 23 mo. 24 1110. SUMMARIES Baby Baby Barley Ba Oraiidma Mil Box Ba Butter Bur Open O Open box 0 bil Bottle Ba Zwiebacli Bil Dry diaper Di di Bread Ba Dinner Ninee Door Do Butter Ta Pin Min All gone Aw aw Trolley car Ca ca Mamma Mama Grandma Mama Leonard Nana Grandma gone Mama aw aw By by By by Garter Ga Clock Ca Bath Ba Chocolate Ka Prunes Mur Milk Ml Bed Be George Dor MatclT Ma Coat Co 167 From the list,* then, it seems that to the twenty-second month he used 12 sounds that conveyed mean- ings to us. They were: 2. ?.! 4.5.0.7. 8. A, a, to ask to go to toilet. Oo, pitched like the whistle on boats. His kind of singing. Ma, Margaret. Oo, oo, 00, used in calling a person. The eldrping noise of a bird. Athaleegathaloo, when asked to talk. Mama (after mo). *In addiLi(Mi 1o Ihcse, ho has tiied to rejieat many words afterus, such as molly-coddle, ca ca, but the list, unless otherwise in-dicated, includes only his working vocabulary.
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Fig. 23. The romper suit, buttoning down tlie side. Very good made ofcrinkled seersucker. (Age, nineteen months.) 168 SUMMAKIES 169 9. Dada (after me). 10. The suort a horse makes. 11. K for kite. 12. The squeaking noise a door makes. I made no more effort to teach liim these soundsthan I had to teach him to walk. In both 1 merelyencouraged his efforts after he had taken the ini-tiative. Of course, he jabbered a great deal, but those 12sounds were the only ones that crystallized intomeanings that we understood as such and that heused in conveying ideas to us. But he had a goodworking vocabulary of the 28 motions above noted,and it was chiefly by these that he communicatedwith us. After he was 22 months old he added new wordsrapidly. One by one these new words took the placeof or accompanied the earlier motions; as, ^na na/liammey, was used with the motion of hammering;^hur/ or later ta/ for hatter, was used with themotion of spreading bread, etc. He used 54 words,as well as 28 motions

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