Sample 1.18: 5 year old boy talking with female adult
Context: talking about a favorite television show and preschool
Adult: Tell me about your favorite Scooby Doo?
1. Child: Um … I don’t know one.
Adult: You don’t remember one?
2. Child No, I know all of them but I don’t … I can’t pick one because I don’t know one.
3. Child: They’re all my favorites.
Adult: They’re all your favorites? What’s Scooby Doo about?
4. Child: He’s funny.
Adult: He is? Who is Scooby Doo?
5. Child: He’s a dog.
Adult: What does he do?
6. Child: He’s scared of ghosts.
Adult: Why?
7. Child: Well, sometimes he captures ghosts.
8. Child: And there is also Scrappy Doo.
Adult: Is he also a dog?
9. Child: Tinier than Scooby.
Adult: Oh, okay.
10. Child: Bigger than a bug.
11. Child: Tinier than Scooby.
12. Child: Like up to here.
13. Child: Not bigger than him.
Adult: What do Scooby Doo and Scrappy Doo do?
14. Child: Well Scooby Doo is afraid of ghosts and Scrappy Doo is not afraid of ghosts.
15. Child: He just wants to splat them.
Adult: To splat them?
16. Child: Yeah
Adult: What does that mean?
17. Child: That means uh punch them.
18. Child: Fight them.
Adult: Is there anybody else besides Scooby Doo and Scrappy Doo?
19. Child: Shaggy, Fred, Velma, and Daphne.
Adult: Yeah?
20. Child: Oh sometimes they’re afraid of ghosts.
21. Child: Shaggy’s always afraid of ghosts like Scooby.
Adult: But not the other ones?
22. Child: Yeah, not Freddie, Velma, Daphne, and Scrappy.
Adult: So do they have a job?
23. Child: Well they catch ghosts but sometimes they’re afraid. Adult: Sometimes they’re afraid? So it’s like mystery?
24. Child: Yeah
Adult: So are you still going to preschool?
25. Child: Yep, still stuck in it.
Adult: Your still stuck in it? Are you having fun?
26. Child: Yeah
Adult: What do you do at preschool?
27. Child: Well there’s five friends that are at my preschool in my class.
Adult: Yeah?
28. Child: First ones Brook.
29. Child: She’s a girl, four years old.
Adult: So she’s younger than you?
30. Child: Yeah.
31. Child: I’m older than her.
32. Child: Well Owen’s in the five year old class.
33. Child: He’s in the fourth class.
34. Child: He’s five years old.
Adult: Just like you.
35. Child: Yeah
36. Child: Owen likes playing the marble game with me.
37. Child: It’s kinda like hockey where you shoot with your hands.
38. Child: We only do it when Mrs. Troy’s there.
Adult: It’s like a hockey game?
39. Child: No, it’s not hockey.
Adult: How do you play?
40. Child: Well you have to have a marble that’s up to here.
41. Child: Want to try it?
Adult: Do you have it with you?
42. Child: Well I have a lot of marbles.
Adult: We will play in a little bit.
43. Child: Okay.
Adult: So you just play games in preschool?
44. Child: Well, I also play with toys and color.
Adult: Do you guys learn anything?
45. Child: Well, I know everything.
Adult: You already know everything? There is nothing else for you to learn?
46. Child: Nope
47. Child: We also read books there too.
Adult: Sounds like fun, I’d like to go to preschool.
48. Child: Well you passed preschool.