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RE: AskSteemit - What's a big coincidence you've experienced?

in #asksteemit7 years ago (edited)

Baby talk, no matter the country I go is so similar.

Across cultures regardless of the language of their families, the first words of babies for anatomical reasons, have incentives to use bilabial sounds like "ma" "ba" or "pa"
Then when babies grow older and gain a little more control over their tongue, they start with palatal sounds like "ta" or "da".

The most common words are. *Mama, Dada, Papa

Twila Tardif, Paul Fletcher, Weilan Liang and Zhixiang Zhang, Niko Kaciroti. Baby’s First 10 Words. Developmental Psychology 2008, Vol. 44, No. 4, 929 –938

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cool, I hadn't thought of that before!