We were told to write down each word that a child spoke to us as well as the words we spoke. We then had to count the morphemes in the child's conversation with us to determine whether or not he/she were correctly communicated for their age.

1. Brittany Clark
Speech 1015
October 28, 2013
Name:
Logan
Age:
50 months
Type of situation:
Free play in bedroom
Length of recording:
11 minutes
Length of Transcript:
50 Utterances
Time of Day:
9:00 pm
Materials Present:
Toy weapons, rescue bots
People Present:
B=Brittany(transcriber)
L= Logan(child)
Adult Context Child MLU
1.Oh cool!
1. my ninja turtles/ 4
2. Ninja turtles/
2. I wanna be Leo, you
be Donnie/
7
3. I’ll be, who am I?
3. Donnie:/
1
4. Ok/
L picking up play shell
behind camera
4. I gotta shell/
3
A shell/
5. Do I get one too?
L looks around for
another shell behind
camera
6. No?
5. you didn’t get a shell/ 6
7. Well give me a
weapon/
6. oh, ok/
1
L handing B a weapon 7. here’s your weapon!/ 4

2. 8. Alright!
B picks up 8. it’s a gun/ 4
9. It’s a gun, where’s
yours?
L picking up swords
behind camera
9. oh! Swords/
2
oh I got this gun XXX got
lights. /
10. Oh cool/
Shoots gun 10. it glows in the dark/
6
11. Cool, come here/
11. glows in the dark/ 5
12. Let me see/
L turns off lights 12. wait, wait, watch/ 3
L shoots gun
13.Woah! Turn the
light back on man!
…
Turns light back on
B points gun 13. don’t shoot me!/ 4
14. Ok/
14. ok:/ 1
15. How do I do it?
L touches the gun 15. all you have to do is
get it out and shoot`
it/
12
16. Get it out/

3. L hitting his hands
together
16. just shoot it!/ 3
B tries to shoot it
17. How do I shoot
it?
L grabing play gun and
demonstrates
shooting
17. because, like this/ 3
18. Cool:!
19. I’m not gonna
shoot you. What
should I shoot?
18. a deer/ 2
20. You see him, you
see the deer?
B pointing to
imaginary deer
21.You have to be
quiet, you ready?
L shakes head yes
B shoots the gun
22. Did I get him?
19. Yeah` I mean no/ 4
23. No I didn’t?
L pointing 20. he went that way!/ 4
24. Can I shoot him
again?
21. yeah!/ 1
25. Do you see him?
Whispers 22. Yeah/ 1
26. You ready?

4. L picks up another toy
gun
23. I shoot him with
this!/
5
27. Okay! You ready?
L and B shoot “guns”
24. got him!/ 2
28. Yay yes! B and L high five
25. we got him
together!/
4
L makes nasty face 26. it’s got poo! Ehhh`!/ 4
29. Yuck nasty!
L looking through box 27. hey we should be / 4
…
L picks up spyglass
28. Jake and The
Neverland Pirates! I’ll
be Jake/
4
30. Okay/
L picking up another
toy(minion)
uhh, you be: _ Ahh a
vegetable it has a frog gun!/
31. A frog gun?
29. yeah it shoots frogs/ 6
Squeezes toy
32. Cool! It’s a
minion/
30. minion shoots frogs
on your booty. Ewk/
8
33. Yuck/
L picking up toy 31. I wanna show you the
rescuebot. The
8

5. rescuebot!/
L Drops toy
34. Ow!
32. Sorry/ 1
35. It’s okay/
Points to the res
rescue bot
33. I’ll be him/ 4
36. Okay you be him
and I’ll be him?
B pointing to the
yellow rescue
bot(Bumblebee)
34. no I’ll be Bumblebee,
you be the firetruck/
9
37. Okay/
35. he’s tough/ 3
L points to the yellow
toy(Bumblebee) for
me and the red
toy(fire truck man) for
him
36. oh I’ll be this one and
you be this one/
10
38. Okay so I’ll be
Bumblebee/
XXX
L talking for the fire
truck man to
bumblebee
37. hey you need help↑/ 4
39.Yeah can you
help me?
B talks for Bumblebee
to fire truck man
38. yeah, you need, are
your houses on fire?/
7
40. Uh yeah can you
put it out!
39. no, I got a waterhose/ 5
41. Come on, let’s go
put it out!

6. L looking at the toys
arm(below camera)
40. hey where’s my
waterhose on my
arm?/
8
42. Squirt it!
41. it’s not here/ 4
L presses button on
toy to make sound
42. it’s got water in
there, it’s a
waterhose/
10
43. You gonna put
out my house fire?
L playing button on
toy
43. are your lights on
fire?/
5
44. Thank you so
much!
you’re welcome, I
gotta get, I gotta
build a house/
8
L using toy arm as
hammer
44. I got a hammer/ 4
45. Oh you’re gonna
build the house with
the hammer!
L presses button on
toy
45. okay, here you go! I
got it./
7
46. Thank you so
much fire truck!
L extending ladder on
his toy
46. you’re welcome, I
gotta ladder to reach
things/
9
47. A ladder to reach
things/
yeah and we_/
48. Can I climb up
your ladder?
47. no you’re too big/ 5

7. 49. Oh I might break
it/
48. yeah:/ 1
XXX
49. Oh I got, I gotta see
you later, bye-bye/
6
50. Bye rescuebots!
XXX
50. don’t come with me
ok?/
5
51. Ok I’ll go home/
.
.
.
L picks up spyglass

8. L turns around to
show his sword that is
tucked in the back of
his shirt
51. Oh a sword 2