Beginning at the Beginning 7 (35)
How much do children say in a day? 16 (19)
Things to do 1. Organizing a recording 20 (10)
The things they say: 1 30 (5)
The First Year 35 (30)
Fathers and mothers 54 (2)
Mama and dada 56 (9)
Things to do 2. Talking to children 58 (7)
The Second Year 65 (46)
What is gone? 84 (2)
Let''s reduplicate 86 (3)
`Fis'' and `tum'' 89 (4)
The first fifty words 93 (3)
Asking questions 96 (3)
Colour words 99 (3)
Telling them what to do 102(9)
Things to do 3. Keeping a diary 104(4)
The things they say: 2 108(3)
The Third Year 111(32)
What time is it? 126(4)
You, me and the others 130(4)
Saying no 134(3)
Grammatical bits and pieces 137(6)
Things to do 4. Measuring the length of a 139(4)
sentence
The Pre-school Years 143(34)
Passive learning 160(3)
Does after come before or does before come 163(4)
after?
If only... 167(2)
Just because 169(8)
Things to do 5. Say what I say 172(3)
The things they say: 3 175(2)
The Early School Years 177(34)
It ain''t what you say... 193(5)
Talking backwards 198(2)
What does it mean? 200(3)
As big as... 203(8)
Things to do 6. What do children know 207(4)
about language?
Complications? 211(12)
Appendix 1. Your child''s first fifty words 223(2)
Appendix 2. Your child''s sentence length 225(5)
Appendix 3. Your child''s consonant clusters 230(2)
Appendix 4. Sentences to imitate 232(2)
Appendix 5. The things they say: 4 - Your turn 234(3)
Appendix 6. Games which help language 237(2)
Appendix 7. Further reading 239
