Universal #1874

Legacy number: 1874

 Number  1869
 Original  Core items of the baby talk register tend to persist for long periods of time.
 Standardized  Core items of the baby talk register tend to persist for long periods of time.
 Keywords  baby talk
 Domain  lexicon
 Type  unconditional
 Status  diachronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  27 lgs, high in IE, low in African and Oceanic lgs: Bengali, Marathi (both Indic, IE), Dutch, English, German (all Germanic, IE), Greek (Greek, IE), Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish (all Romance, IE), Serbo-Croatian (Slavic, IE), Latvian (Baltic, IE), Syrian Arabic, Neo-Aramaic, Maltese (all Semitic, Afro-Asiatic), Berber (Berber, Afro-Asiatic), Cocopa, Pomo (both Hokan), Comanche (Uto-Aztecan), Hidatsa (Siouan), Hungarian (Ugric, Uralic), Japanese (Japanese-Ryukyuan), Kannada (Havyaka) (Dravidian), Kipsigis (Nilotic, Nilo-Saharan), Luo (Eastern Sudanic, Nilo-Saharan), Nivkh (Isolate), Samoan (Oceanic, E. Malayo-Polynesian), Tzeltal (Mayan)
 Source  Ferguson 1978a: 212

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Discussion
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E.g. 2000 years for Latin-Spanish ‘pappa’ (food). <author>Do they really "persist", in the sense of being handed on from one generation to the next? Or are they independently re-created, on iconic principles?
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
E.g. 2000 years for Latin-Spanish 'pappa' (food). <author>

Do they really "persist", in the sense of being handed on from one generation to the next? Or are they independently re-created, on iconic principles?