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宝宝出生哭声自带口音全球大不同

Long before they’re making their linguistic debut, babies are watching, listening, processing, their little brains working furiously to make sense of the world.

小宝宝开口发出第一个音之前，他们就一直在观察倾听、处理信息，他们的小脑袋在疯狂运作以搞懂这个世界。

But new research shows that they’re participating. From the moment they’re born, babies are, in their own way, communicating in the language of their families: Even before they have words, they have accents.

但新的一项研究显示，小宝宝们在参与。从出生的那一刻，小宝宝在用他们自己的方式、自己的语系来交流。他们能用语言表达之前，就已经有了语调。

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In a pair of studies led by Kathleen Wermke, who runs the Center for Pre-speech Development and Developmental Disorders at the University of Würzburg in Germany, researchers ran acoustical analyses on more than 6,000 cries, collected from infants during their first week of life.

凯瑟琳乌木克管理德国维尔茨堡大学管理语前发育和发育障碍中心，带领研究人员做了一组实验，收录了超过6000多例出生一周的新生儿的哭声，做了声音分析。

In the first, published in the Journal of voice, they focused on babies born to German and Mandarin-speaking Chinese families. In the second, published in Speech, Language and Hearing, they compared the cries of German babies to those of babies from Nso families in Cameroon, who speak Lamnso.