Re: Infant Conphonology

Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:

> 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 . . .
And people told me my sublimino-velar trill was weird ...

                                                   Andreas

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