Baby Language
Zahra seems to be somewhere between the human realm and the baby realm. She talks non-stop, but most of it is unintelligible. She knows a lot of words, and ever so often, she’ll inject them into her baby realm language, but usually it’s just gibberish. When she wants something, however, she suddenly becomes very eloquent.
It makes me wonder. Is there truly “another” language that babies intuitively have from birth but lose as they become children? Your thoughts?
February 20th, 2006 at 8:01 pm
Oh I’m sure it makes sense to them. I read somewhere that there is a difference between learning the language and actually the physical act of learning to speak (moving your tongue around etc.) I reckon they know exactly what they want to say but are having difficulty with the physical sounds, so they practice them (sounds like baby gurrgggle). It’s the most beautiful thing though, subhanallah He is the Best of Creators!