Two-word sentences

[pne]

Recently, I've heard the first two-word sentences from Amy.

A few days ago, I was sitting on the toilet when she opened the door and said [dɛdɛ ko] "Daddy toilet" (the second word from German Klo—though she seems to pronounce it with an unaspirated [k]!). And this morning, I was trying to sleep in a little after she had already woken up, and while she was playing around on Stella's side of the bed, Amy looked over to me and said [ɕ̩ ɕ̩ dɛdɛ] "sleep Daddy" = "Daddy is sleeping"!

(I'm not entire certain how to notate her word for "sleep"—it's a sibilant of some form, but it's not [ʃ] nor [ç]. [ɕ]? [ʂ]? At any rate, it's usually doubled, and almost certainly from the onomatopoetic form Stella and I use for mimicking sleep sounds: something like [χ] with ingressive airstream and a simultaneous [ɔ] sound followed by [çʉ] for Stella and maybe [ɕʉ] for me.)

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[fridoline.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

Emily was about two years old when she uttered one of her first two-word phrases: "ahpi binkging" (open tangerine) = she wanted me to break the skin of the tangerine so that she could start peeling it.

Her most charming bilingual utterance was "ein bird!". She was visiting her German step-grandmother and was looking out of the window with her, when she saw a bird.