The document is a transcript of an 11-minute recording capturing a free play session between a 50-month-old child named Logan and a transcriber named Brittany Clark. They engage in imaginative play with toy weapons and various characters, including Ninja Turtles and rescue bots, demonstrating language use and social interaction. The dialogue includes the children creating scenarios, asking questions, and demonstrating how to use their toys creatively.

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