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The Latin word infans, from which “infant" comes, means “a person who isunable to speak",
parents with their eyes, their expressions and their whole bodies, and parents respond to them
But all mothers know that communication begins long before actual speech. Babies “talk
Human beings are different from other animals in our highly developed use of language
and gradually learns to recognize meaning. In South Africa, *the Bantu tribe celebrates
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and understanding. A baby can hear conversations even while she is in her mother's womb.
And then from the minute she is born she begins to feel the rhythms of her native language
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the first time a child answers to her name with a special dinner.
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way to encourage your baby's language is to begin a two-way conversation. Mothers
an over the world talk to their babies in a special language. known as “アmotherese' or "baby
talk". Without learning how, we tend to use the simplest words, changing ouglammar to
make sentences shorter. Mothers talk of themselves in the third person, repeat things, and
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speak to their infants in a sing-song pitch. By looking at our babies while we are talking to
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Babies start babbling from around three months, repeating easy sounds like “da", "ta", "ma",
“"ba" and “pa”. All around the word these first basic sounds are the roots of common names
for other family members, most importantly “mother” and “father”. For example, baba means
“mother”
*the Gusii tribe of Kenya, while baban is “father” for *the Sambarivo people of
20 Madagascar. The English word “daddy” is tata in Greek, tatas in Sanskrit and papa in French.
Considering the amount of time she spends with her baby in the first months, a mother
might expect her baby to say her name first. But this doesn't usually happen. Studies have
shown that (イbabies try to name their fathers before their mothers. Perhaps mothers want
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to hear their baby's first word as “daddy”, in order to make a father feel more important and
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distant person, is considered worth saying first.
In Europe, the origins of the everyday words for “mother” are closely related to breastfeeding.
Mom, Mam, Mummy
for mother's milk”, and the Roman mamma, meaning “breast".
all these words come from the ancient Greek mamman, which means
“to
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Before you know it, your baby will be giving her own special names to her brothers and
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sisters and the cat. But it's not very surprising that a baby's very first “words” are meant for
her parents -
the first objects of a baby's attention.
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注)*the Bantu tribe = バントゥー族(中央·南部アフリカの黒人諸族の名前)
*the Gusii tribe = グシイ族(ケニアの農耕民族の名前)
*the Sambarivo people = サンバリボ族(マダガスカルの民族の名前)
(出典) From A Gift for New Mothers: Traditional Wisdom of Pregnancy, Birth, and Motherhood by Deborah .Jackson. 1999. 2005,
Duncan Baird Publishers. Copyright © 1999, 2005 Watkins Meaia Limited. Used by permission. (Watkins. London. 2005)
