Abstract: The contributions of Ivan Georgiov – philosopher, pedagogue, linguist and public figure to Bulgaria are multifaceted. The aim of this paper is to highlight Ivan Georhov’s contributions to the developmental psycholinguistics: his studies of the early acquisition of Bulgarian in comparison to other Slavic and Indo-European languages (German, French, English, Italian) are still actual. He described the individual differences in language acquisition decades before that scientific paradigm has been set up. He discussed the origin of the words for father and mother in various languages, relating them to the pre-linguistic stage of babbling. He gave a detailed description of the phonological processes in early mastering of /r/ by children acquiring Slavic vs. non-Slavic languages.
Keywords: Ivan Georhov’s contributions to psycholinguistics, individual differences in early acquisition of Bulgarian, mama and papa in different languages, phonological processes in early acquisition of /r/ in Slavic vs. non-Slavic languages.
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