Babies cry in their mother tongues

The differences in infantile crying melodies correspond with their mother tongue, indicating that babies are influenced by the sound of the first language to penetrate the womb.

It had long been believed that the fetus can memorize sounds from the outside world, both music and human voices, in the last three months of pregnancy.

According to a study published in Current Biology, human neonates are capable of producing different crying melodies, all of which correspond with the language they have heard during their fetal life.

Babies are reported to begin learning their parents' accents while still in the womb. Infants born into French families tend to cry with a rising accent, consistent with their parents' native languages while German babies' cries have a falling inflection going from high to low.

‘Newborns are highly motivated to imitate their mother's behavior in order to attract her and hence to foster bonding,’ said lead researcher Kathleen Wermke.

Source: presstv.ir