Cool New Study on Baby Crying
Over the years, there have been tons of studies to learn more about the cries of babies–what do they mean, what do they want, do mothers recognize their own baby’s cries, etc. A new study reveals an amazing fact about babies–they cry in their native language. For example, German babies have their own cry, French babies cry “in French” and so on. This is so cool!
The scientists said that fetuses start to pick up on the melody of ambient language during their third trimester in the womb. They can’t hear all of the phonetic details of their mothers’ speech, but they can perceive the overall patterns or phrases and sentences. Imitating those patterns probably helps newborns endear themselves to their mothers, the researchers theorized.
The findings, by scientists at the University of Wurzburg and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Germany and the Ecole Normale Superieure/National Center for Scientific Research in France, were published online in the journal Current Biology. (read more)
Aren’t babies just amazing little creatures?!
image: about.com
Write a comment