While perusing my Google Reader, I came across this blog post that discusses a recent study of newborns cries. In the study, newborns cries follow the direction of their parents speech. Basically, in Germany and France, newborns cry differently because of the variation in languages.
The author of this blog took this one step further and applied it to musical learning. I am not sure that I completely believe what this author says, because it is just his own assertions. Despite the fact that he is a professor, there needs to be more research to support what he is saying.
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I read about this in the newspaper (or somewhere else... I don't remember). Very interesting!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if you can tell dialects from a babies cry. For instance if a baby cries with a Southern drawl, or a Cockney accent. I am not sure that I believe this man either. But it would be quite an interesting find if it were true.
ReplyDeleteI'm having trouble accessing the link to this blog post. I assume you're talking about this post (http://www.musiccognition.nl/blog/), which I encountered on Vanessa Bond's blog. This topic is intriguing and it will be interesting to see the direction this research heads in the future.
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