tonight, i was watching the news and they were doing a report on a medical study they did on infants. it was about how they tested infants who were born in French speaking household in France and infants who were born in German speaking households in Germany. they noted that when the French infants would cry, their cries would be higher in tone and pitch. and when the German infants would cry, their cries would be lower, etc. they basically concluded that when the baby is in its mothers womb it develops whatever accent that its mother has because that they are mostly attracted to their mother’s voice. they even did this test on American babies in different regions of the country, like the north and south, etc.
i can’t even describe how amazed i was by this segment. i always get made fun of the way i speak sometimes when i’m angry or differents words i use to describe things and i realized tonight that it could just early development i went through in the womb because of the way my mother spoke.
it’s stories like these that make me want to search for my biological parents because it always makes me hungry to learn more about them. what they look like and their interests and passions. i just want to know sometimes. but other times, i’m alright with not knowing.
