Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1937 — Page 2

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Quintuplets, Late in Learning How to Talk, Advanced Rapidly Once They Got Started

When the photo at the le —the quints couldn't talk

ft was taken and didn't seem to ture shows Yvonne and Marie, isolated in a play-pen for study by the

psychologists. . . . They can talk no Emilie looks up reverently at a pic her evening prayers.

“way back in December, 1935 want to try. The pic-

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A far cry from the five helpless youngsters who had to grunt and gesture to make their wants known—the Dionne YY rs with Dr.

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Soft Contralto Voice Psy chologists Told

185 Words,

By BRUCE CATTON 1937, NEA Service, 2.—"The Dionne quintuplets learned to talk

but they came on with a grand rush when they did get

(Copyright, ORONTO, Ont., Nov. slowly, started

“Right now they

down. “Incidentally, they have very All of this is revealed in a papers* on the quintuplets’ language development, written by W. E. Blatz, M. I. Fletcher and M. Mason of | St. George's School for Child Study | of the University of Toronto, The | study was one of several made of the quintuplets by Dr. Blatz and his coworkers. Psychologists have shown that single children learn to talk before | twins do. The child who grows up | in company with another child of | his own age can communicate with his playmate through grunts and gestures. The child who grows up without such a companion, how- | ever, has to learn to talk to make | his wants known. If this is true of twins, how | much more would it be true of quintuplets! Each of these girls has four pl:ymates, instead of just one at the same stage. From the time they first crawled around the | nursery together, the quints had a code of gestures, squeals and jabberings by which they could understand each other. They should | worry about language!

» 5 HERE is another, similar tor, Dr. Blatz has found at] the nursery school that children | whose parents do everything for them are slower in learning to talk

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than children who are not so pam- |

pered. There again you have the case of a child who doesn't need to learn to talk, because his wants are an- | ticipated before he needs to call attention to them. And there vou | have another parallel—the quintu- | plets, who have always had trained | nurses in constant attendance. looking out for them and hurrying to meet their needs as no mother, | however, devoted, could hope to. Those things considered, it is no wonder that the quints were slow | in learning to talk. | ” ” Hue started, however, they are making up for lost time. At present they are acquiring new | words faster than the normal child | acquires them. The psychologists who | have been studying them during the last two years will testify that | the girls will talk your arm off, it you give them a chance. One of the biggest difficulties the nursery authorities . have had in| maintaining meal-time discipline | has been due to the fact that the quints like to carry on earnest and

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are acquiring new words faster children of their age acquire them. And having learned to talk, they are using their newly developed powers as much as the traffic will bear. “They have a total joint vocabulary of 185 words and the nursery at Callander echoes to their soft-voiced conversation from sunup to sun- |

low contr alto voices.”

| used as much as ever. |

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Allan Roy Dafoe, as they look tod | Emilie, Yvonne, Marie, Annette and

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w, though—and in the other photo ture of the Christ Child and says

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could pick it up. Yvonne, on the | other hand, has 24 words in her vo- | cabulary that no other quint pos- | sesses. Annette has 17, Marie 16, | Emilie 15 and Cecile 10. on HE study of the girls’ progress into spoken language has been extremely interesting to these learned psychologists. For instance: | psychologists have pretty definitely | tabulated the order in which Eng-lish-speaking children learn to pronounce the vowel sounds. But the order in which the quints mastered | these sounds was entirely different. The quints are learning French, rather than English, and the vowel sounds are different in French. mee —~——————————| But the quints developed 1 control over consonants in the same | y order that English-speaking chil-! dinner table, dren do. Consonants are much the | They were born pantomimists, same in all languages—which indi- | apparently—which made it easier cates, possibly, that a child po | 1

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than ordinary

their | interminable conversations over the

for them to get along without words | consonants in the order of their difin the early days. This lends spice | | ficulty, not in the order of their use. to their conversation now, for the gestures and the pantomime are still | h = = NOTHER, along the same line: | like all children, the quints | # # . n were mouthing single syllables, most | F a quint wants to say “No,” she | of them meaningless to anybody but doesn't merely say “No.” (Of a quintuplet, long before they were | course, with the quints, it's “Non,” putting them together into words. anyway, since they talk French) | And their increase in the mastery | She shakes her head vigorously, let- of syllables began about 10 months | ting her curls fly, and says “Non! pefore they stepped up their increase with great impressiveness. in the use of words. And when the answer is yes, Ner'| gu. wo Dr. Bits, Suggests that | “Oui!” is bit off short, accompanied |, °° joining iy of syl- | by an emphatic nodding of the head |... icoor the mechanism by which | and an extra wide opening of the | es are formed. Meanings must | be added. The child can talk before The gnuints know their names too, {he has anything to say. | although they can't pronounce them | he quints are going to be vel very well. Go up to Annette, for |jinoual. From now on, the conversa- |

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| instance, and call her Marie, and [tion at one meal each day is to be |

you will get an instant and voluble | in English, as fast as the quints can |

acquire any. Which, judging by the speed with which they are picking up their

Non!” (with much head“Marie la"—pointing. Moi Annette!” French, h, won be 1 Te Top now, All of the girls can say “Yvonne” without trouble. They have a way of turning R into W, which makes

‘RADIO IS TO AID IN Marie, “Mawie.” A tte b S ’ tb itl Cecile. Boro PUPILS ILS” EXERCISE Teeteele.” And Emilie is “Meelie.” | n

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Conditioning exercises, set to] music and directed by radio, will be | inaugurated this week for pupils of Grades 5 and 6, Emil Roth, So of Physical education, announced | today. The second program, to be broadcast at 2:15 p. m. today, is to be heard over WFBM. Exercises, after | the 15-minute broadcast period, are | to be continued under instruction of | the regular teachers in the gymnasiums.

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HE benevolent shadow of Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, the quints’ physician, protector and best friend, falls across their early language ex- | periences as it does across every[thing else connected with them. Here is a sample: The ordinary child, learning to | talk English, acquires these words first—Mama, Dada, Papa and Baby. The quints, starting out in French, got these words first—Papa, Maman, Tantan, (for Auntie: the nursery cook is their aunt) tit-tot, (for ticktock: clock) —and docteur. Only they

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