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Title | Article: Babies' Language Learning Starts From The Womb |
Body | From http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091105092607.htm Babies' Language Learning Starts From The Womb November 5, 2009 From their very first days, newborns' cries already bear the mark of the language their parents speak, reveals a new study published online in Current Biology. The findings suggest that infants begin picking up elements of what will be their first language in the womb, and certainly long before their first babble or coo. Kathleen Wermke's team recorded and analyzed the cries of 60 healthy newborns, 30 born into French-speaking families and 30 born into German-speaking families, when they were three to five days old. That analysis revealed clear differences in the shape of the newborns' cry melodies, based on their mother tongue. Read the full article at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091105092607.htm or a related article at http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091105/sc_livescience/newbornbabiescryinnativetongue |
Source | Science Daily |
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Publishdate | 2009-11-23 00:00:00 |
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