Re: Infant Conphonology

Mark J. Reed wrote: "My son, age 6 months, seems to be a fertile source of
new phones, unrecognized by the IPA.  Most recently I've noticed a
bilabio-latero-velar affricate, which I guess would be [bl)G)], though I
normally just transcribe it as "blg".  It occurs in his favorite
exclamation, [bl)G)a:], though his normal conversational register so far
consists solely of [ba] repeated over and over . . ."

Hmm, interesting. I read that at a very young age babies could learn to
pronounce any sounds, it's just they need to have people around them to be
able to remember it. What other crazy sounds does your son articulate? These
might come in handy for alien languages...

Andreas wrote: "And people told me my sublimino-velar trill was weird ..."

What's that??

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