ABSTRACT
Megan was the youngest child in the study. She was 20 months at the onset of the study and was just beginning to combine words (mean MLU for Month I = 2.07). As was shown in Fig. 4.1, the majority of her references to main participants were about herself at the onset of the study; 86% of references to main participants were coded as self reference. Furthermore, Megan, like the other ego-anchored children, began the study using multiple forms to refer to herself, often in ways that deviated from adult input. These factors led her to be characterized as ego-anchored at the onset of the study.
