Baby Talk
© 1999
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| Technical Aspects | |
| Story length: | 650 words/3 pages double spaced |
| Voice: | Third person, past tense |
| Genre: | General fiction |
| Copyrighted: | © 1999 |
| Story information | |
| Main character: | An unnamed baby |
| Character description: | A pre-verbal female infant |
| Supporting characters: | The baby's mother, who encourages her to say "Mama." |
| Setting: | Indeterminate; modern time, modern living quarters |
| General Plot | |
| A baby plays with "baby toys" while wishing she was allowed to play with her mother's "toy," the telephone. Basic record of her thought process as she tries to tell her mother she wants to play with the phone instead of her own toys. | |
| Information, inspiration, and other notes | |
| I thought this story up while studying language acquisition for my child development class! I originally intended it to be a poem when I came up with the concept, but it came out as this. | |
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