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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)
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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."