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Does this cross language families? Possible explanation: "Child has
said something! It's clearly said my name, it wants my attention. I am
loved by this lump of flesh that has mostly screamed and shat for
months!"

cmacis

On 16 October 2012 11:43, CosmicRay <cr@cosmicray.co.uk> wrote:
> My 17-month old has a working vocabulary of around a thousand words  or so
> 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 :-)
>
> kozmikreis
>
> On 16 Oct 2012, at 11:17, mashers <mail@mashley.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, 16 October 2012 06:54:49 UTC+1, Robin Powell wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, the only verbal words they know are "mama"[1] and "hi!", both
>> pretty iffily, so I can't usefully comment yet.
>>
>> [1]: It's interesting that we didn't actually say "mama", or
>> anything much like it, to them very much at all.  I have a suspicion
>> that those sounds are a human built-in in some fashion.
>
>
> Yep, [mama] is usually part of reduplicative babble demonstrated by infants.
> [m] is a common sound in most languages (and exists in pretty much every
> language on the planet) so tends to be babbled a lot, and often mistaken for
> a word ("mama").
>
> How much Lojban are you speaking to them? And what other languages are they
> hearing in their environment?
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