Invented words

Hello. I am a graduate student taking a language acquisition class, and I'm writing a mini-research paper on invented words. I don't have any kids myself, so I was hoping that you could help me by sharing with me some invented words that you or people you know's kids have come up with. By invented words, I mean words that children invent spontaneously in their own speech, like bee-housefor bee-hive , or plant-man for gardener, or cooker for cook, or to pillow for to throw a pillow at. Please tell me the age of the child when they invented the word(s), their gender, and the word(s). Thank you.

"Du" is any bath toy. I think its short for duck..... hes 10 months

She is 15 months and says yabu for thank you

i forget which younger sibling it was and they were no older than 2 but they would say holdge you FOR hold me when they wanted to be picked up. lol

My daughter calls boobs 'buboo'. Forgot to say she is 15 months and started saying it at 13 months.

conan says quack quack for any birds.. or if he wants to watch duck tales.

he calls cows moo even though he knows how to say cow.

he also says lovers you. instead of i love you.

he turns 3 in April

he used these from about 18-24m old

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1. banana (nana)
2. bath (baa)
3. blanket (bank-ee)
4. blocks (bocks)
5. broccoli (bok-ee, bock-a-lee)
6. car (ca)
7. cereal (sho-sho)
8. color (cuhl-uh)
9. cream (keem)
10. dinosaur (dine-ee)
11. elephant (ele)
12. fast (fas)
13. finger (fing-er)
14. flush (fuss)
15. fly (fy)
16. fork (fok)
17. grandma (gamma)
18. help (helf, hep)
19. jacket (yak-ee)
20. knock-knock (na-gog)
21. milk [meh, mik]
22. movie (moo-ney)
23. music (moo-key)
24. noodles (noo-nuhs)
25. oatmeal (om-gip)
26. open (ohpt)
27. pajamas (jamas)
28. pillow (pill-eh)
29. please (peese)
30. popcorn (cop-ka)
31. potatoes (tay-toes)
32. puzzle (puzz-ee)
33. sleep (seep)
34. spoon (poon)
35. sticker (dick-ee)
36. super (soo-pah)
37. throw (trow)
38. trash (tash)
39. vitamin (bide-ee)
40. yellow (lellow)
41. zebra (zee-bah)

Quoting mloker:" Hello. I am a graduate student taking a language acquisition class, and I'm writing a mini-research paper ... [snip!] ... a pillow at. Please tell me the age of the child when they invented the word(s), their gender, and the word(s). Thank you."

I can tell you theories of how children acquire words. I don't see how gender has anything to do with it, age has a huge impact on the stages of language acquisition. Gender doesn't have too big of an influence, honestly.

But if you don't know the theories of language acquisition I can give you sites... things like "goed" instead of "went" because of "over generalization." If anything, look up Noam Chomsky's theories of language development. He is absolutely the man to study.

I have learned about linguistics for a few years (its my minor) and English is my major, my second minor is Secondary Education. Language acquisition fascinates me.

Thank you everyone for the feedback. Dream, why do you think your boy called cereal sho-sho and vitamin bide-ee?

Quoting mloker:" Thank you everyone for the feedback. Dream, why do you think your boy called cereal sho-sho and vitamin bide-ee? "

well "bide-ee" kind of sounds like Vitamin. V sounds like B. and the T sounds like D so ... Vita sounds like Bi-du .. I guess

with cereal, that's just what he made up. i guess he heard the C sound like a "sh" sound and then he just doubled up the first syllable.

Quoting dream:" well "bide-ee" kind of sounds like Vitamin. V sounds like B. and the T sounds like D so ... Vita sounds ... [snip!] ... that's just what he made up. i guess he heard the C sound like a "sh" sound and then he just doubled up the first syllable."

It makes sense, because the bilabial sounds (the b) are easier to make and come first in language development before labiodental sounds, which is the v.

My 2 year old says:
Bay-ee (baby)
Bane-ee (blankie)
shoesh (shoes)
eyesh (eyes)
Bubba (brother, which we nicknamed his brother)
Eh-ma (Evan, his brother)
bu-ee (bunny)
bur (bird)
daw (dog)

I am sure there are a few more but that is the top of my head 

Oh and recently he started calling my husband and I "babe" since that is what we call each other but it comes out as "bay". Trying to break that habit!

i just remembered another one! my sister when she was in pre-k she would say off-ta-bus for Octopus lol