Topic: Kathleen Wermke
The research team recorded more than a thousand cries from 30 French newborns and 30 German newborns. French and German adults have different patterns of intonation, some of which are easily identifiable. The speech of Germans tends to fall at the end ...
A newborn's cry is a call to action. Behavioral scientist Kathleen Wermke of the University of Wurzburg in Germany suspected otherwise. Wermke and colleagues analyzed digital recordings of cries from 30 German and 30 French babies who were between 2 and ...
The cry of newborn babies may seem like nothing more than inescapable shrills, but they could be infants' first attempts to imitate the language they hear while in the womb. In a study published today in Current Biology, scientists found differences in ...
