A new study explains why demonstrative words are so common in early language development - via healthing_ca healthing health Canada healthnews babies
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After identifying their parents, many children’s first words are variations on “this” and “that,” according to linguists — words that help caretakers orient themselves by drawing attention to specific objects. Many languages, including English, Spanish and Mandarin, have fairly simple demonstrative words, such as “this” and “that” as well as “here” and “there.” In all of those languages, those words are among some of the first children learn.
“Children learn demonstratives that call others’ attention to objects – such as ‘this/that’ and ‘here/there’ – at extremely young ages, when they know very few other words,” Skilton toldAdvertisement Some languages have many sets of demonstrative words. Ticuna has six, four of which are very commonly used. The children featured in the study used what are called “egocentric” demonstratives, or words focused on how close or far objects were to them. It takes about two years after learning egocentric words to start developing “interactive” demonstratives, focused on the point of view of the person you’re speaking to.
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