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Date: Saturday, 10 March 2007 18:11 (UTC)Erika definitely knows about "two" -- she frequently picks up two of something and tells me there are two, or tears something in half and talks about having two.
And she sort of counts in the same way you describe, but I don't think she really grasps what the numbers mean. Kind of like singing the alphabet song -- she always gets the letters in the right order, but often skips some of them, and she doesn't really know which letter names match up with which written letters.
Incidentally, do German children typically sing an alphabet song, or is that an English-language phenomenon?