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