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On 17 Oct 2012, at 04:42, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wr=
ote:

> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:43:09AM +0100, CosmicRay wrote:
>> My 17-month old has a working vocabulary of around a thousand
>> words  or so=20
>=20
> 0.o
>=20
> That's a bit exceptional, no?

It's one to two orders of magnitude more than her immediate peers, and we'v=
e got used to the nursery(/kindergarten) she attends a few hours a week exc=
itedly telling us all about her verbal prowess, but I don't know if it's ex=
ceptional.  I've heard anecdotal evidence of outliers her age who properly =
use pronouns, verb conjugations, adverbs, clauses, time references and so o=
n and speak in >10 word sentences.  I'd call *that* exceptional.

>> but still reverts to calling her mother "mama" when she's very
>> tired or upset, it definitely isn't babbled and definitely isn't
>> something we've taught her.  Interesting phenomenon that it's so
>> widespread :-)
>=20
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama_and_papa says that it's basically
> "that's what kids say, and everybody assumes it's about them".
> Except, according to that page, the Japanese, who assume it's about
> food.  I find that pretty hilarious, for some reason.

Hahaha, brilliant!  So it's probably fair to assume that these names most l=
ikely came about from babies' use of them more than (in most cultures) the =
self-labelling of them by parents first.

kozmikreis

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