Re: [lojban-beginners] Lojbanic children

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

As far as I can tell, yes, that's exactly what is happening; babies
tend to say "mama", and parents want to believe it's them. 

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama_and_papa

-Robin

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:47:52AM +0100, james riley wrote:
> 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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