Re: CHAT: The Conlang Instinct
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 4, 1999, 0:07 |
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Clinton Moreland-Stringham wrote:
>
> I've heard that "ma" comes from the fact that those are the first two phonemes
> that a child masters.
I've been told that /m/ is difficult for very young children, which
makes sense - infants have a different structure to their laranyx, and I
think that it would be difficult to breathe thru both the mouth and the
nose.
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