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Were the German babies invading the French babies' cribs at the time?

I wonder if a similar study will be done on old people; studying the sound they make when they are crying for wine & cheese or beer and bratwurst.

This article is like a gold mine of stereotypical humour.

Wow this is very interesting. There is tons of research showing that babies are capable of distinguishing a wide range of phonemes from languages through out the world but as they mature they lose the ability to recognize phonemes outside of their native language and by a year or two demonstrate adult like patterns.

On the other hand this study is showing that the accent if present early on, which makes sense considering all of the experience they have with their native language while in the womb. So I am curious now on how these two findings fit together in the larger picture of development. Whether essentially the presence of an rudimentary accents effect phoneme recognition? I will have to read more about it.