Intonation. “Say” is used as a prompt to setup the word to mimic and the word to mimic is overemphasized and repeated. We’ve got built built in mirror neurons that absorb this shit like a sponge.
Curious 🤔
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okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think you nailed it
vane@lemmy.world 2 months ago
prompt babyneering
hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Because “say” is less repetitive and we’re more inclined to decide that arbitrary combinations of consonants and vowels that babies babble are one of the many variations on names for parents. Babies are pretty likely to stumble across vocalizations like “mama” or “dada” just by babbling. It doesn’t make it any less of a useful way to start learning language, given how much they tend to be positively reinforced for those vocalizations, but it’s not like they really know that’s what they’re doing at first.
“Say” requires a lot more intention or luck.
stray@pawb.social 2 months ago
Because people learn to understand language much faster than being able to produce it, both in terms of formulation and pronunciation. For babies in particular, they struggle with the fine motor skills required to produce sounds reliably. Babies can learn to produce nonverbal communication faster than vocal language because it’s easier in terms of bodily control.
Jack@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I think “mama”, “papa”, and “baba” are also some of the easiest things for human babies to say.
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 2 months ago
They are. Mama/dada/papa/nana or similar sounds made with the lips or tongue against the gums are near universal terms for parents across languages because that’s just easy sounds for babies to make early on. We just roll with it and adopted their “words” as the foundation of assigning meanings to a specific sound.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
We taught our babies the sign language for “eat” and that made things a lot easier for everyone.
9point6@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Say le way
Say le way
Say le way
papalonian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Come say le way with me, lads
wieson@feddit.org 2 months ago
To the Orinoco flow
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 months ago
[toddler jumps onto a boat and sails into the sunset]
NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
When my youngest was about 3, I told him to behave one day, and he screeched back “I AM being have!”
ozymandias@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Do you pronounce behave as “be have”?
Is this a British thing or something?ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I think the kid mispronounced “have” to rhyme with “knave,” or “grave,” or “cave,” or “Dave,” or “rave,” or “crave,” or y’know like “behave.”
Zorque@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why so creepily smooth…
edg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Looks AI upscaled
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
For a better mouthfeel
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
The head or the smirk? Yes
edg@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The whole thing
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not all of them do. I work with autistic kids, and sometimes we have to modify how we teach echoics (repeating what someone else said) because of it.
We may have a kid that we’re trying to teach to ask for help. So say, for example, we see them unable to open their lunch box. For some kids, we’d go, “Say, ‘help’.” The kid replies, “Help,” and we help them open the box.
But some kids will repeat exactly what we say, which means they end up going, “Say help.” So we have to change the way we make the suggestion. In this case we’d omit the “say” part, and just say “Help.” That way the kid can communication more functionally to get their needs met.
youCanCallMeDragon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why AI
quips@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Can anyone explain this? Do I need to have seen dexter?
ozymandias@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
He’s the one cop that always knew Dexter was a psycho, but nobody would listen to him
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Simpler phonetics. Children learn languages at different rates because some languages are literally harder to learn, as a result of more or less distinct phonetics and grammar.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They’re monologuing internally like Dexter about what an oblivious fool they’re making you look like. They know exactly what they’re fucking doing.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Absolutely, and they’re very aware of shit adults think goes right over their head. I know that I did know and pretended I didn’t.