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1 Introduction; 2 Meaning and the concept of ‘semantic variation’; 3 Semantic variation and systemic-functional linguistics; 4 The research subjects; 5 Recording mothers and children; 6 The collected data and its contexts; 7 Analytic categories: an example; 8 Answer: the point of a question; 9 Asking and telling: some results from an empirical investigation; 10 The discussion of results: PC1-A1;11 The discussion of results: PC1-A2; 12 Conclusion