Adventures in Toddler Bilingualism
Superfluous plurals.
My Yiddish- and English-speaking* 3-year-old, while playing blocks with me:
Du bist a boyer! ("You're a builder!")
Ikh bin a boyer! ("I'm a builder!")
Mir zaynen beyde boyersn! ("We're both builders'n!", i.e. with the plural form boyers and an added plural suffix-n)
*She also sings a lot of songs in Mandarin, but I don't think she can generate a sentence.
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