[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.
More likely it's due to limited ability at at least one stage in the
process. I'm relatively certain that in languages in which "mother"
doesn't begin with my., children just starting to speak don't say
"mama". If I were to guess, based on the fact that common baby words are
"mama", "dada", and "baba".
-- mu'o mi'e .aionys.
.i.e'ucai ko cmima lo pilno be denpa bu .i doi.luk. mi patfu do zo'o (Come to the Dot Side! Luke, I am your father. :D )
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