Kathleen Wermke of the University of Würzburg in Germany, and her colleagues say that only days after birth, newborn babies can already recognize changes of pitch and tone. Language speakers can do these things while speaking to indicate emotions, such as anger or sadness. When this is performed around infants, they can sometimes start to let out a cry on certain changes. This has been recorded on German and French babies, and scientists were able to identify 1,254. This signifies that the language learning process begins only days after birth. Wermke also said that mothers in France and Germany act differently, reacting at a different speed to crying, which affects their ability to tell emotions in voice apart.
I found this article interesting because I think it's remarkable that a baby can begin learning language in a mere couple of days. It is important because this could possibly lead to a treatment of children who have trouble learning their native language. This relates to the instincts of animals, whether they are natural or learned, because knowing local language is an instinct. This is important towards future developments of treatments of language disability.
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