INFANT LANGUAGE.
ORIGIN OF THE WORD "MUM." 'Times'— 1 Sydney Sun' Special Cables. (Received Last Night, 7,45 o'clock.) LONDON, November 1. Professor Lipmann, in a lecture befoi'e the Child Students' Society, stated that the word "Mum" was an instinctive sound, and was not the intentional call of a child. Every nationality employed it. After a time, an infant associated "mum" with the arrival of its mother, and the cessation of its distress. It afterwards used tho word intelligently. The earliest sounds were vowel sounds, due to the tongue getting into the way of the breath.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 3 November 1913, Page 4
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95INFANT LANGUAGE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 3 November 1913, Page 4
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