Extract 3
1 Rachel: yeah but if you- (.) <if you weighchi:ldren >
2 once a year .hh then >you don’t know whether<
3 at that point when you weigh them they
4 might just be about to have a growth spurt↑
5 i mean i know - i- i’ve got three daughters↓
6 .hh and i know that [.hh £before a child goes
7 Eamonn: [uhuh
8 Rachel: up [they do sometimes go out a little bit£
9 Eamonn: [yeah
In extract 3, Rachel develops an argument founded on claims regarding expectable childhood growth spurts. At line 5, she self-interrupts to attest to her own experiential expertise on these matters “i mean i know - i- i’ve got three daughters”, before returning to her wider stance. In the next extract we see how information regarding ‘how many’ children is conjoined with ‘how old’.