Babies cry in mother tongue

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Posted: Saturday, Nov 07, 2009 at 2040 hrs IST
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Washington: Long before their birth, infants begin picking up elements of their first language in the womb, says a new study. After analysing the cries of 60 healthy newborns, a team of researchers from University of Wurzburg in Germany, found that “human neonates are not just capable of producing different cry melodies, they prefer to produce those melody patterns that are typical to the language they have heard during their fetal life within the last trimester of gestation”.

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