I have a question. Or a thought, really. An observation?

[conuly]

Ana tends to add an -a to certain verbs:

I pick-a up book!
No take-a nap! (When if it hadn't been one of those verbs, it would've not had an "a" in there)
You read-a da book.

It's not all verbs she does this with - she says she wants to turn off the light, not turna off, for example.

Does anybody have any idea why she might possibly be doing this? It's very confusing.

Comments

[rachelkachel]

Can you tell if it's related to the consonant at the end? As ladyshrew said in your other post, it might be easier that way - to add an extra vowel sound depending on what the preceding sound was.

[conuly]

Hm. I can do that tomorrow. I don't see any correlation between the end of the word, and the -a, though.

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

To me it looked like the sharper, harder constanants. K, ck, T, etc. (And is the first letter after that hard or softish?) The sudden stop at the end may make adding the a easier than breathing however the heck we do at the end of a word that ends in a t, or ck, or something...

[conuly]

Stops.

But she doesn't consistently do that after stops - "I lick top!" and "I bite you!".

See the problem?

[kibbles.livejournal.com]

Ok, lick top would have fit into what looked like a pattern to me, I would have expecter lick-a top, but bite you would have been ok (and not bite-a) because of the soft y sound.

So there goes my theory out the window.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

It doesn't have to be consistent - in fact, one wouldn't expect it to be - and may be already fading out as she gets more facility with her consonants.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

That's what it sounds like to me too - quite a few snall children do this.