Archive Month: March 2012

The Music of Language

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  March 24, 2012

by Teri Ong My granddaughter Faith, not quite two, is now becoming very interested in communication. She has a handful of words in her repertoire that are very clear to all – “Abi,” “dog,” “cat,” “book,” and, of course, “no”. Lately she has added “moo” to describe my ceramic cow creamer. But she cannot carry on a decent conversation with a grown-up using only those words, so she attempts to do so with her very own dear intonations. In an unbroken stream of sound, making use of the vowel sound “eh”, she sings forth her sentences in a series of […]

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