November 6th, 2009

Baby Cries Match Parents Language Patterns

  • Nov. 6th, 2009 at 12:39 PM
Of course, I found this interesting --

A new study of over a thousand recorded cries from 30 French newborns and 30 German newborns found differences in the cries' melody patterns. French cries tended to have a rising melody, while the German cries tended to have a falling melody.

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"Crying is not linguistic, yet they seem to be echoing the acoustic patterns that they've heard either in utero or every early on, very early exposure, right after birth."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120131516&ft=1&f=1001

So, the poor baby is screaming, "hel-LOOO, a little Desinex here!" in the same tonal qualities as whatever language his mom speaks, lol!

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