Julia Scherba de Valenzuela, Ph.D.
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Big Sweets and Little Sweets

LYNNE: Lots of sweets.
TEACHER: Lots of them? Do you like any of them specially?
LYNNE: I've got some indoors.
TEACHER: Have you? What kind?
LYNNE: Got a packet.
TEACHER: A packet of them? What, Smarties? Are they Smarties?
LYNNE: They're in a bag.
TEACHER: In a bag? Smarties are in a box, aren't they?
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TEACHER: ((reading)) 'I like...' What's the word for all kinds of jelly babies and Smarties? What do we go to buy? We say I'm going to buy some...
LYNNE: I have had some Smarties ((indignantly))
TEACHER: Can you think of the word?
LYNNE: But I have had some Smarties.
TEACHER: What sort of a shop do you go and buy Smarties from?
CHILD 1: A children's shop.
CHILD 2: No, a sweetie shop.
TEACHER: A sweet shop. ((continues to read)) 'I like sweets...'
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This transcript is from:  Tizard, B., & Hughes, M. (1984). Young children learning. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.


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