Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Do Babies Cry in Different Languages?


 
We all know babies cry and wail, but it takes a practiced ear to hear the difference between all the cries and decipher them to know what the tiny human wants. But what about when they are in different countries? Could you put a baby from America in a room with one from France and they’d talk baby all day long? Or would their specific cries just confuse the other?
We know that babies hear music in the womb, and we talk to them. Does that mean they hear the intonations of our voice, our language, and try to copy it after they are born?

Well, Dr. Kathleen Wermke in the German university town of Würzburg has set out to enlighten us! She has completed a study on the language of babies.
Read about her findings here: https://parenting.nytimes.com/baby/wermke-prespeech-development-wurzburg

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