Communicative development: neonate crying reflects patterns of native-language speech.
The crying behaviours of newborn infants are shown to be surprisingly sophisticated, reflecting generic prosodic features of their native languages.
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Centre for Music and Science, Faculty of Music, West Road, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 9DP, UK. ic108@hermes.cam.ac.uk
D001307:Auditory Perception; D003448:Crying / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007802:Language; D014705:Verbal Behavior