Re: [lojban] baby words: "help"

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

On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 11:18:10AM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Kevin Reid <kpreid@switchb.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > For language acquisition, shouldn't we prefer sentences with
> > "simple words" over ones with lujvo, when the lujvo are there
> > for a "variant" meaning rather than one that's fundamentally not
> > a gismu?
> 
> If you want the acquirer to acquire the full morphology, you need
> to use a good sample of lujvo, fu'ivla and cmevla too. I
> understand infants acquire the phonological rules of a language
> before they acquire any significant vocabulary, so hearing full
> blown "grown up" speech is important for them too.

Quite, which is why I throw out strings of full-form Lojban every
once in a while.

If people want to skype or whatever and have me hold the babies
nearby so they can hear it, that's fine too.  :)

-Robin

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