Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cadovax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!decwrl!greipa!pesnta!pertec!scgvaxd!trwrb!trwrba!cadovax!bob From: bob@cadovax.UUCP (Bob "Kat" Kaplan) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: False cognates Message-ID: <687@cadovax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 18:25:39 EDT Article-I.D.: cadovax.687 Posted: Tue Jul 2 18:25:39 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jul-85 01:27:41 EDT References: <277@mit-athena.UUCP> Reply-To: bob@cadovax.UUCP (Bob "Kat" Kaplan) Distribution: net.nlang Organization: Contel Cado, Torrance, CA Lines: 17 Summary: In article <277@mit-athena.UUCP> jc@mit-athena.UUCP (John Chambers) writes: >There are many languages in which the word for "mother" consists of the "m" >sound plus a low vowel. Many of them are not related. Psycholinguists >have suggested that there is something deep within the human psyche that >wants to call their mother by some term sounding like "ma". Some phonologists have suggested that the "ma" sound is very easy for a child to utter, and for that reason one of the child's first words will usually be "ma" regardless of the linguistic community the child is born into. -- Bob Kaplan "Ilo Shaka. I Olimo Shando. Shanda Lamoshi Kando. Hopa Bia Shata Mahanda."