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Newborns' Cry Melody Is Shaped by Their Native Language

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Mampe, Birgit, Friederici, Angela D., Christophe, Anne, Wermke, Kathleen·2009·Current Biology

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Human fetuses are able to memorize auditory stimuli 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 ("motherese"). Their perceptual preference for the surrounding language and their ability to distinguish between prosodically different languages and pitch changes are based on prosodic information, primarily melody. Adult-like processing of pitch intervals allows newborns to appreciate musical melodies and emotional and linguistic prosody. Although prenatal exposure to native-language prosody influences newborns' perception, the surrounding language affects sound production apparently much later. Here, we analyzed the crying patterns of 30 French and 30 German newborns with respect to their melody and intensity contours. The French group preferentially produced cries with a rising melody contour, whereas the German group preferentially produced falling contours. The data show an influence of the surrounding speech prosody on newborns' cry melody, possibly via vocal learning based on biological predispositions.

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Authors: Mampe, B., Friederici, A. D., Christophe, A., & Wermke, K.
Affiliations: Max Planck Society (DE)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
University of Würzburg (DE)
Corresponding author: Wermke, Kathleen
ORCID: Friederici, Angela D.
Christophe, Anne
Wermke, Kathleen
Venue: Current Biology
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2009-12
Volume: 19
Issue: 23
Pages: 1994-1997
ISSN: 0960-9822 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.09.064
OpenAlex: W2057083828
Cited by: 564
References: 55
Citations by year: 2026: 36 · 2025: 33 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 41 · 2021: 43 · 2020: 77 · 2019: 34 · 2018: 32 · 2017: 30 · 2016: 26 · 2015: 35 · 2014: 37 · 2013: 37 · 2012: 31
FWCI: 27.13
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: bronze
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Funders: European Commission
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Infant Health and Development
Keywords: newborn crying, pitch contour, language influence, prosody, child-directed speech, prenatal language exposure, France-Germany comparison, vocal learning, emotional prosody
MeSH terms: Auditory Perception, Crying, Female, Humans, Infant, Newborn, Language, Male

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