Re: [lojban-beginners] Lojbanic children

[CosmicRay <cr@cosmicray.co.uk>]

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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