Is this just something we decided would symbolise baby speech or are children that grow up around English more likely to say this?
Is this just something we decided would symbolise baby speech or are children that grow up around English more likely to say this?
Every baby says goo or gaa at some point.
Those are just representative sounds. Like ‘bang’ and ‘pow’ in comic books.
Onomatopoeia is always just a rough approximation
Unless you’re a lyrebird!