ABSTRACT
Grice, a 22-month-old girl, was the second youngest participant in the study. At the onset of the recordings, she was also the child who had the least advanced MLU; her mean MLU for Month I was 1.72 (see Table 4.1). Thus at the beginning of the study Grice was just beginning to combine words. With regard to her distribution of reference to self and other, Grice referred primarily to herself as main participant at the onset of the study; 85% of all such references were to herself (see Fig. 4.1). Even by the end of the study, we see that she continued to refer to herself as the main participant in her utterances. Like the other ego-anchored children, Grice used multiple self reference forms throughout the course of the study. The major developmental changes involved her reorganization of the relationship between such forms and the contexts in which they appeared. I now consider Grice's organization and reorganization of this self reference system across the 4 months of the study.
