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she made the whole statement for herself : Kabz dati Mam ' Jclhi 

 (" cabs dirty, peram' clean "). She still talks constantly to herself, and 

 with a continuity giving more or less evidence of continuous trains of 

 thought. I am informed of dramatic conversations with her doll, such 

 as pretending to make it look at things, and describing them to it. 



The doll furnishes an illustration of the process of making generic 

 names. A doll was named " Bessie," in honor of the donor ; some time 

 afterward another doll was given by another person. The child insisted 

 on calling this " Bessie," too. She does not seem to feel the want of a 

 specific distinction between the two dolls ; when she does wish to speak 

 of one as distinct from the other, she says " other Bessie." In like 

 manner, bet (bacon) is used with a generalized meaning, nearly= oxpov, 

 to denote any dish that appears at breakfast. 



Twenty-two months. Vocabulary and power of expression are 

 gradually and steadily extending. A certain number of the words 

 called symbolic by some recent philologists have been mastered : 

 " now," " there," " other," or " 'nother," are in constant use ; the child 

 often says "there it is" (in the compendious form, zhdtis), and almost 

 always adds "now" to the statement of anything she wants (e. g., 

 " Bring cake now "). " Again " is also in use, though not quite so 

 much. The following approach to a complex sentence is reported : 

 " Out pull baby pecs " (spectacles). Simpler combinations are 

 freely used : subject and verb, as " run away man ; " or, subject, verb, 

 and regime, as " mama get Bessie." The sense is generally optative 

 or imperative, but sometimes indicative. She often says es es (yes) to 

 emphasize her demands, as : " Es es baby's book there." 



Articulation is firmer, and very distinct. She says " good-by " 

 better than most adults, but making two separate words of it, and 

 dwelling strongly on the " good." The vowel-range is increased, but 

 a, d, are still favorite sounds. Of consonants ch, j, and th (both sounds), 

 are still imperfect (th hard mostly becomes s, th soft, z), and conso- 

 nantal r is not yet formed at all. 



At twenty-two months one day, a real verbal inflection was used. 

 She said of a younger child, " naughty babj" ; " and being asked why it 

 was naughty answered without hesitation, Maid (cried). That she 

 appreciates the general force of the inflection is shown about a week 

 later by her using " corned " for the participle " come." 



At twenty-two months ten days, a sentence is noted ex relatione, 

 containing not only a direct but an indirect regime : " Annie gave 

 baby sugar ; " and again, a day or two later, " Dada give bdtd (butter, 

 i. e., bread and butter) baby." Talk to the doll is now very common, 

 as, " Bessie look," " Bessie walk away : " sometimes the child repeats 

 to the doll what has been said to her by elders. She also puts the doll 



1 Simple k is now substituted for the initial kh in this word ; which again, as noted 

 above, had replaced a more complicated aspirate sound. 



