II. PRESENTING THE DIARY METHOD.

VERBS; GRAMMAR; PARTS of speech; CHILDREN'S language; LINGUISTIC analysis; LANGUAGE acquisition; INTERPERSONAL communication in children; CHILD development; CHILD psychology

The article focuses on the diary method from eight mothers concerning their children's first 10 spontaneous uses of 34 common verbs. It notes that there are 14 kinds of flexibility coded for in their use of first verbs. It was found out that children using their verbs as commands and/or in directing their mother may understand these as tied to a specific content of use. It explains that semantic flexibility measures address the focal questions of extendability. It points out that variability in their use of first verbs arise from differences among children and the verbs.