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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>OK here's my anecdote:
My god-daughter, at 10 months, regularly used 2 words referentially:
"Juice" and "Shoes". Although these were similar -- both being
produced with a very forceful burst -- the former clearly began with an
affricate and the latter a fricative. The more remarkable fact was that
these words were only said in the presence of appropriate referents and could be
elicited by pointing to each thing in the same session. By 12 months,
these words had dropped out of her repertoire completely as she began to work on
the usual daddy/mommy business. They did eventually re-emerge, but now
were assimilated to the same: /du/ for both words, just like any other 16 month
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> info-childes@mail.talkbank.org on behalf
of Nan Ratner<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tue 9/12/2006 8:12 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Annette
Karmiloff-Smith; info-childes@mail.talkbank.org; Carol
Stoel-Gammon<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: babbling/first words<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>And then there are the atypical kids. My son, Adami, couldn't
say Mama<BR>for years, he said Nana instead, but managed "trash truck" much
better,<BR>as one of his first 10 words, although it came out without the /r/
and<BR>/k/; however, the affricates and fricative came out just fine.
Go<BR>figure. He had SLI and some of the kids we followed in Rescorla
and<BR>Ratner (1996) also had weird initial phonemic
inventories.<BR><BR>Nan<BR><BR><BR>Nan Bernstein Ratner, Professor and
Chairman<BR>Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences<BR>0100 Lefrak
Hall<BR>University of Maryland<BR>College Park, MD
20742<BR>nratner@hesp.umd.edu<BR><A
href="http://www.bsos.umd.edu/hesp/facultyStaff/ratnern.htm">http://www.bsos.umd.edu/hesp/facultyStaff/ratnern.htm</A><BR>301-405-4213<BR>301-314-2023
(fax)<BR><BR>>>> Carol Stoel-Gammon <csg@u.washington.edu>
09/12/06 5:41 PM >>><BR>As as been noted by many of the respondents,
the first word of many <BR>children (including mine) is something other
than daddy. It is true, <BR>however, that for American children, daddy is
among the very first <BR>words. Based on data from the CHILDES data base,
daddy is produced by<BR><BR>50% of children at age 11.48 months, while mommy is
produced by 50% <BR>of children at 11.64 months. Other words on the CHILDES
list reach <BR>the 50% criterion after 12.28
months.<BR><BR><BR>************************************<BR>Carol Stoel-Gammon,
Ph.D.<BR>Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences<BR>University of
Washington<BR>1417 N.E. 42nd Street<BR>Seattle, WA 98105-6246<BR><BR>Phone:
206-543-7692<BR>Fax:
206-543-1093<BR>************************************<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>On Sep
12, 2006, at 12:40 AM, Annette Karmiloff-Smith wrote:<BR><BR>> Someone has
asked me whether it is true that babies' first word is <BR>> Daddy and
whether this is because the articulation position of D is<BR><BR>>
easiest? not sure either is true but would appreciated
comments <BR>> from those who study this area. Are the words for
Daddy/Papa etc. <BR>> and Mummy/Maman etc. easier because there is no
change of place of <BR>> articulation? All thoughts on the topic
most appreciated.<BR>> thanks<BR>> Annette K-S<BR>><BR>><BR>>
--<BR>>
________________________________________________________________<BR>>
Professor A.Karmiloff-Smith, CBE, FBA, FMedSci,<BR>> Head, Neurocognitive
Development Unit,<BR>> Institute of Child Health,<BR>> 30 Guilford
Street,<BR>> London WC1N 1EH, U.K.<BR>> tel: 0207 905 2754<BR>> sec:
0207 905 2334<BR>> <A
href="http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/ich/html/academicunits/neurocog_dev/">http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/ich/html/academicunits/neurocog_dev/</A><BR>>
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