{"id":9467,"date":"2013-12-27T11:57:49","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T11:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=9467"},"modified":"2013-12-27T11:57:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T11:57:49","slug":"babbling-and-motherese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=9467","title":{"rendered":"Babbling and motherese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few days I&#8217;ve been observing, and to some extent participating, in my niece&#8217;s language acquisition. She is 8 months old and babbles a lot to herself and to others. Some of her babbling can sound like possible words, like dada, but they don&#8217;t seem to be associated with anything yet. She is also starting to direct her attention at various things, and especially at people, who she charms with her smiles.<\/p>\n<p>From her mother (my sister-in-law) she is getting mainly Russian, and from her father (my brother) she is getting English. When I first heard her mother talking to her in Russian I didn&#8217;t understand much, but when I listened more closely I realised that the same phrases where coming up frequently &#8211; as with motherese or Child Directed Speech generally. Two phrases I understood where <em>\u0427\u0442\u043e \u0442\u044b \u0445\u043e\u0447\u0435\u0448\u044c?<\/em> (What do you want?) and <em>\u0412\u0441\u0451<\/em> (all, everything). There are also a lot of terms of affection, which in Russian are often diminutives like <em>\u043a\u043e\u0442\u0451\u043d\u043e\u043a<\/em> (kitten).<\/p>\n<p>I found more examples of Russian motherese on: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.russianforfree.com\/adoptive-parents.php\">http:\/\/www.russianforfree.com\/adoptive-parents.php<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u0412\u0441\u0451<\/em> seems to be quite a useful word which appears in various phrsaes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u0432\u043e\u0442 \u0438 \u0432\u0441\u0451, \u044d\u0442\u043e \u0432\u0441\u0451 = that&#8217;s all<br \/>\n&#8211; \u0447\u0430\u0449\u0435 \u0432\u0441\u0435\u0433\u043e = most often<br \/>\n&#8211; \u043c\u043d\u0435 \u0432\u0441\u0451 \u0440\u0430\u0432\u043d\u043e = it&#8217;s all the same to me<br \/>\n&#8211; \u0432\u0441\u0451 \u0442\u0430\u043c \u0436\u0435 = still there<br \/>\n&#8211; \u0432\u0441\u0451 \u0436\u0435 = all the same<br \/>\n&#8211; \u0432\u0441\u0451 \u0435\u0449\u0451 = still<br \/>\n&#8211; \u0430 \u0432\u0441\u0451-\u0442\u0430\u043a\u0438 = all the same, nevertheless<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few days I&#8217;ve been observing, and to some extent participating, in my niece&#8217;s language acquisition. She is 8 months old and babbles a lot to herself and to others. Some of her babbling can sound like possible words, like dada, but they don&#8217;t seem to be associated with anything yet. She is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,132,52,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-language-acquisition","category-russian","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}