Yes Really – Newborn Babies Are Born With Accents
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Yes Really – Newborn Babies Are Born With Accents
*screams in Français*
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From melody to language
E-Mail In the first few months of their lives, babies cry, babble, gurgle and make a variety of other peculiar sounds. It can be difficult to imagine that they are actually laying the foundations for later speech with these utterances. However, there is a determining element that proves that even their cries can be assigned to a particular language: the speech melody - or, more accurately: prosody. "Every language is characterised by specific musical elements, which we call prosody," says Kathleen Wermke. Prosody, in simple terms, is the combination of intonation (melody) and rhythm. Earlie...
Source: eurekalert.org