Word: hildegarde
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Leopold is a professor of German and a linguistics expert. When his first daughter, Hildegard, was born nine years ago, Professor Leopold immediately started a serious study of her language development. He kept a diary, put down every sound his baby uttered. (Eventually, Hildegard, seeing her father constantly busy with a pencil, asked: "What are you writing?" He replied: "I am taking notes for my work," kept his secret.) Dr. Leopold gave his experiment an unusual twist by teaching Hildegard two languages: from birth he talked to her only in German, his wife only in English...
...Leopold believes that his findings are highly significant, that they upset some old notions. Volume I of his study, published last week, covers Hildegard's development to the age of two. Highlights...
...months Hildegard cooed...
...Contrary to expectations, Hildegard knew papa (twelve months) before mamma (14 months)-possibly because papa was always around taking notes...
...Hildegard's development confirmed a well-known phenomenon: that yes is one of the most ostracized words in English. At first Hildegard used ja, later all right...