After all, if a child says it, someone may come and and give them a bottle. It’s one of the main reasons why “mama” is such a good word for kids to learn early on. Anything that generates a response is a likely candidate for an early word - no matter what it is.” “You probably say, ‘Alexa’ often because you start a sentence with it to play a song. “Any word you say a lot becomes an early word for little kids,” said Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, president of the International Society for Infant Studies. When Alexa responds a beat or so later, he smiles.Ĭameron’s relationship with Alexa is increasingly common, experts say, and having the word in a toddler’s early language skillset isn’t as surprising as you’d think. To Cameron, now 20 months old, Alexa isn’t just a virtual assistant - she’s the house DJ, the reminder to take the lasagna out of the oven and the one who dims the lights when we’re too tired to get off the couch. He’d heard me say “Alexa” plenty of times before (I often wondered if he thought it was the plant responding), but this time he knew the Echo would light up and say something. I’d no sooner said “Alexa” than he whipped his head around to look at the Echo speaker tucked behind the potted golden pothos on the bookcase. The first four words my toddler understood were “mom,” “dad,” “cat” and “Alexa.”Ĭameron first recognized the name of Amazon’s voice assistant while sitting, covered in spaghetti sauce, in his high chair.
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