Beautiful #languageAquisition example for motivated compound creation in #English :

D(2;7.1, in the bath, after father said: "You're making a cake?")):
It's a water-cake.

Father: Why do you call it water-cake?

D: I made it in the water.

Source (secondary): Clark, Eva V. (2016). First Language Acquistion, Third Edition, Cambridge University Press, p. 292. (referenced original source: Clark 1993 The lexicon in acquisition, CUP: 40-41)
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