This appendix was compiled in the following way. Handwritten diary entries – each consisting of a child utterance, its date of use, and a brief contextual note – were entered into a computer file. The Key Word And Line (KWAL) program from the CHILDES system was then used to search for the entries containing each verb. The verbs involved were mostly known from previous hand-done analyses and compilations. A running file was kept consisting of all of those entries that were not extracted by means of the verb-by-verb search. These were then compiled and categorized by hand. After all of this was accomplished, the five video and five audio transcripts were then searched by hand and added to the listings for the appropriate verbs and structures. The complex structures reported in chapter 6 were compiled by hand.

Details of how the diary was kept may be found in chapter 3. In general, the earlier months are more thorough and the later months are more selective, based on the criterion of “emergent structure” (recording the child's most complex productions), with an explicit change along these lines at around 20 months. This means that as T started using a verb in a more sophisticated way, less sophisticated ways would start being ignored. (N.B.: all video and audio examples are reported without using this criterion.) Notes on parental usage are fairly reliable in the early months, become less so in the later months, and are non-existent in the last months. The organization of the appendix parallels exactly the organization of chapter 4, 5, and 6.