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November 21, 2005
Baby Talk
I think for baby talk the first thing that changes is pronunciation. Infants learn to make noises before they apply those noises into words. Then lexicon, when the child expands his/her vocabulary, is learned. Last and the most difficult is syntax. It takes a long time for children to learn the proper form of negation and possession. I think this differs for adults because once we learn pronunciation and syntax it does not change much. However, words are constantly changing or being invented.
Posted by lcisowens at November 21, 2005 10:44 AM