Here is a list of random utterances I’ve heard from children that I’m interested in following up, but haven’t yet. Most of the kids are older, but I will be updating it soon (hopefully…).

I’m hoping these might give you an idea for an experiment:

MB, 8;3 – “you know those klutz things i wanted to buy, that i saw in that catalogue.  you know those ones that have the buttons you can make with the sparkly windows?  It has those at Barnes and Noble.    And it has those other Klutz things that I wanted...”

MB, 7;11 -- "I want the book from your childhood of fairytales"

MB, 7;11 -- "She has a picture of both her nieces that some man drew."  [this was in reference to two separate pictures, one picture of each niece].

MB, 7;9 -- "Why are sandals called 'sandles'?  Are they like 'sand pals'?"

MB, 7;9 -- [Singing]: "Everywhere you point your finger to, there's someone with the same type blood as you." [now commenting on the line]:  "That means that everyone has the same blood type, even though it doesn't."  [I pushed this issue a little bit, and she said that she knew it didn't mean that every person in the world had the same type blood and yet she still felt that it also had that meaning.  Further pushing met with "don't start that linguistics stuff again"]

MB, 7;3 -- "I've never made a so complete letter!"  [intended meaning:  ... never made such a complete letter]

VM, age 6 – [discussing the design on his pants]: “I have one of these on this side and no on this side."

Nora, age 4 – “We’re going to Look Park and it’s going to be so fun because I’ve never been there in a long time”

Preschool aged child (age unknown, heard as I was passing a playground. Child was younger than six) -- “I probably thought that would happen!” [intended meaning: “I thought that would probably happen”]