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February 28, 2005
"Nah-Ghi"
Alexis has a new "word". It's a "word" she started using for something she eats everyday, and used to call by a somewhat normal variation of the whole word. About a week ago she started asking me for a "Nah-Ghi". I finally had her show me what she wanted when I couldn't for the life of me figure out what the child was talking about. Can you guess what it is? It's a banana! So how did a "bana" become a "Nah-Ghi"? The mind reels.
Posted by Daffodil at February 28, 2005 4:12 PM
Comments
Interesting....I will have to tell my husband about this. He was a linguistics major in college.
Posted by: Monica at February 28, 2005 6:14 PM
Maybe it's the word for "banana" in a different language and she heard it somewhere. I know if isn't Spanish because plátano is banana in Spanish.
Posted by: Dianne at March 1, 2005 10:10 AM
I asked my husband about it and he said that she learned the second part of the word. He had a really good, technical, explanation and if I tried to repeat what he said it wouldn't sound right :). But, basically, she hasn't learned how to parse the first and second part of the word together yet.
Posted by: Monica at March 1, 2005 1:10 PM
Interesting! Thanks for getting back to me.
Posted by: Dianne at March 1, 2005 7:57 PM