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To: Neocon who wrote (52146)8/19/1999 10:47:00 AM
From: epicure  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
That is an extremely odd use of incidental. You know, I hope, that adults speak in "special" ways to babies, to promote their development- extra emphasis on certain sounds, repetition, higher pitch. I do not know how a baby would develop if it was deprived of interaction with adults(although we know from the kids who have grown up in horrible orphanages- where babies get little interaction that the children will not develop normally and this includes speech). Children do NOT just "pick up" speech, even if it seems like they do. Every interaction with an adult (usually the Mother) is teaching them. Baby says "gaaa" and motions at stuffed animal- mother says "OH, you want Bobby the bunny? Does baby want the bunny? <Mother gets bunny> Here's bunny. Here's baby's bunny" ANd this goes on ALLLLL day. All good mothers do this and babies respond to it. You could not be more wrong in thinking learning to speak is incidental.
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