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To: tophat9000
the meaning would tend to random

...unless there were some other constant involved, such as the sounds a baby makes when nursing; i.e "mama" or similar. That would tend to create a bias towards mama being assigned to the mother, leaving "papa" or "dada" to be assigned to the father.

26 posted on 07/22/2004 12:45:37 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (If you can read this, thank a teacher....and since it's in English, thank a soldier)
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To: ElkGroveDan
unless there were some other constant involved, such as the sounds a baby makes when nursing; i.e "mama" or similar. That would tend to create a bias towards mama being assigned to the mother, leaving "papa" or "dada" to be assigned to the father.

Hmmm, I could see that... Interesting variable to consider

30 posted on 07/22/2004 5:43:39 PM PDT by tophat9000
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