There's a lot of action going on today, and it's getting me pretty anxious . I've got c-span streaming in the background to keep an ear out for whatever foolish crap republicans are up to. Chanting object at the Woman's Caucus so no one can hear them? Really? Are we in second grade?
I realized I needed a break, So lets learn a bit, this one's an amazing story, and may help show language-as-a-skill is genetic (not the actual form of the language, English isn't imprinted on your chromosomes).
According to a newly published study from Current Biology looking at newborns and infants from across multiple language regions on the European mainland, the ambient language spoken in the third trimester, particularly the mother's language, results in very specific characteristics in cries and vocalizations in the children after birth.
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