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Babies Begin Learning Language In the Womb
Hugh Pickens writes "Science Daily reports findings from a new study which suggest that infants begin picking up elements of what will be their first language in the womb, long before their first babble or coo, and are able to memorize sounds from the external world by the last trimester of pregnancy, with a particular sensitivity to melody contour in both music and language. Newborns prefer their mother's voice over other voices and perceive the emotional content of messages conveyed via intonation contours in maternal speech (a.k.a. 'motherese'). 'The dramatic finding of this study is that not only are human neonates capable of producing different cry melodies, but they prefer to produce those melody patterns that are typical for the ambient language they have heard during their fetal life, within the last trimester of gestation,' said Kathleen Wermke of the University of Würzburg in Germany. Wermke's team recorded and analyzed the cries of 60 healthy newborns, 30 born into French-speaking families and 30 born into German-speaking families, when they were three to five days old. The recordings of 2,500 cries as mothers changed babies' diapers, readied babies for feeding or otherwise interacted with the youngsters show an extremely early impact of native language, with analysis revealing clear differences in the shape of the newborns' cry melodies, based on their mother tongue."
I wonder what the pro abortionists will make of this study?
Try to ban its publication, no doubt...
>>Surely teaching languages like French and German to poor, defenseless, not even yet born babies breaks some law.
Duh, they're *fetuses*, and so it's against the law to treat them as anything but undifferentiated masses of cells.
Hell, our glorious leader was the only guy in Illinois to vote for POST-birth abortions.
It should be. Or conspiracy to set the stage for domestic violence, or something.
Consider this morning. I was sitting on the walkway and a police officer walked up to chat for a while. He commented that two of the other guys on the street ended up in jail last night because of a fight. One of the guys had kicked his girlfriend and the other guy, playing Cpt. Save-a-ho, decided to jump in to do something over it. I am unclear as to whether or not the lady ended up in jail as well.
My analysis was this. When ladies become bored they begin talking. It's babylonian. It does not even matter what they talk about. When ladies become bored they begin talking. Her boyfriend puts up with this for a while but, after several days (months, years, decades) of drinking his tolerance for mindless babble has slowly decreased. So at some point he tells her to shut up. She does... for a little while. But ladies become bored and then they start talking. It does not even matter what they talk about. When ladies become bored they begin talking. Then her boyfriend begins drinking more rapidly and eventually tells her to shut up again. She puts up with it for a while but, at some point, she will begin to argue about why she should shut up. The point of view of the male is that he doesn't need to babble endlessly (though drunks most often do--and that's my largest annoyance with being homeless is that most other homeless men are drunks whose brains operate like women: they constantly need to be running their mouths about something, anything, whateverthing). The point of view of the female is that she's bored so why shouldn't she be able to talk about something.
So boyfriend eventually becomes upset enough to hit girlfriend in the shoulder--like a guy slugging another guy in the shoulder to emphasize the point of "shut up". Women, through the media and popular culture, have cultured the "Cpt. Save-a-Ho" mentality in naive and easily manipulated males... so male number two decides that the boyfriend is out of line and jumps in to the rescue. Males end up in fight and hauled off by police... female is entertained just as much as if she had someone who would actually listen to her endlessly babbling and talking.
So... all of that in consideration... babies learning mommy's language in the womb is just a side effect of being constantly exposed to mommy when she becomes bored and feels the need to begin talking endlessly about something, anything.
What makes this something of aggravated assault is that the baby has no way of saying,"Look, lady, shut the bleep-bleep-bleep up for once!" Maybe that is why gestation is nine months long. Nine months of listening to someone else endlessly run their mouth is the absolute maximum that anyone is able to psychologically deal with.
That is a whole new perspective on premature birth.
the NPG electrode was replaced with carbon blac
Of course. Fag. Oh wait, you take offense to that? Think it's insulting? I'm just calling you out for who you are - a Fag. Oh wait, that's not how it works? Really?
You're comment is everything that's wrong in politics right now: all sound and fury, loaded with emotional arguments and no substance.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, sue.
actually, all the more reason to abort babies :-)
"The chosen terminology by each group is pro-life and pro-choice. Respect it."
The proper terms are pro-life, and baby-killers. You respect it.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
Unfortunately, sanity is pretty rare in that crowd. You can tell, because the arguments used to support abortions of convenience are sociopathic, to put it nicely.