• lemming@anarchist.nexus
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    3 days ago

    They absolutely do. Even within the same language, regional accents can have very different prosodies.
    I recall reading a Nature article iirc about how neonatal cry melody can reflect prenatal exposure to parental language! How nuts is that!? Brains are cool.