Those who believe that all newborns cry the same way, you are wrong. A German study has concluded that babies recognize the sounds of the mother tongue and at birth they cry imitating that pattern.
Inside the womb, during the last months of gestation babies hear and recognize sounds coming from outside such as melodies, noises and voices, especially the voice of their mother.
According to the study of the University of Würzburg, the tone of the crying of babies varies in relation to the intonation of the language spoken by the mother, in short, the one she has heard since she has the capacity to capture sounds. When crying, as they will later to start talking, babies reproduce the same sound patterns of the mother tongue.
Scientists have demonstrated through recordings that babies of French couples tend to start softly and then rise in tone, while those of German couples start high and then the tone drops.
But the matter is further refined. They have also discovered that they differentiate between local accents. They analyzed the crying of babies born in different parts of Britain and found a variation in their cries.
In light of the investigations, it seems that crying is the first manifestation of what will later be the acquisition of language in children. What at first may seem to us as simple cries of complaint (which, incidentally, we must never neglect) could be the basis of future linguistic development.
