
Babies Cry with an Accent

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This is interesting – but totally makes sense too! If what a baby has been used to hearing for nine months is a tonal way in which the parent’s speak – then it would be copied through crying from their baby too. My Mom said she always knew my sister and me by our ‘cry’. We apparently cried exactly the same way – A LAH A LAH A LAH. Isn’t that funny?
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I found it fascinating. Never thought that a tonal accent would be present in different cultures.
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This is very cute.
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ROFL, Candace. As a mom, I think you’d agree, crying doesn’t sound good in any language! :D