<html><div style='background-color:'><P><BR><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11px; FONT-FAMILY: tahoma,sans-serif">From: <I>"tina.bennett" <tina.bennett@wichita.edu></I><BR>To: <I>virtual writer <virtual_writer@hotmail.co.uk></I><BR>Subject: <I>RE: first words</I><BR>Date: <I>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:19:19 -0500</I><BR></FONT></P>
<P><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11px; FONT-FAMILY: tahoma,sans-serif">Your comment about the credibility of "food" provoking a first word was interesting.<BR>Two of my five children did this--coincidentally, the two who weighed the most at birth. One produced the word "more" ([mo]) at 7 months when seated in his high chair and reaching toward the food on the table; the other at six months, when she wanted to nurse (an activity to which we gave the silly label of "nursey-nu-nu"), reached toward me and said, quite insistently, [nu/nu]. Syllabically it resembled babbling but I think there can be no doubt about the status of these utterances as "words."<BR><BR>-Tina Bennett-Kastor<BR></P></FONT></div><br clear=all><hr>Amazing competition for unsigned bands with <a href="http://g.msn.com/8HMAENUK/2749??PS=47575" target="_top">Live Sessions from MSN Spaces</a> </html>