There's pretty much nothing cuter than baby talk. Whether they're just straight up babbling or saying actual words, when little ones try to communicate verbally it's always adorable...especially when they get really animated and attempt to have a real conversation.
In a video posted on June 21, a baby girl is having a very spirited discussion with her mom, even though she can't say any actual words yet. What makes this moment so especially hilarious is the fact that the little one has a super strong scouse accent...even though she's just speaking in gibberish!
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"Cutie patoooootie!" wrote @iamcustardpot . She's too funny! Kids with accents are the best at any age, but this baby really takes the cake. Commenters couldn't get enough!
"Gibberish in a scouse accent is my new favorite," wrote lawaax.
"The baby scouse accent without saying a word is brilliant," wrote Lift and Inspire.
"Waffling in a scouse accent, I never thought I'd see that," wrote TOPBINZ FC.
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If you've never heard the term "scouse" before, it's another name for the accent people from Liverpool have (e.g., The Beatles). And apparently, it starts young...but that's the case with accents in general, experts say.
Do Babies Develop Accents Before They Can Talk?
Not only do babies have accents before they technically learn to speak , but research has shown that they pick up accents before they're even born, according to The Cut.
"In a pair of studies led by Kathleen Wermke, who runs the Center for Pre-speech Development and Developmental Disorders at the University of Würzburg in Germany, researchers ran acoustical analyses on more than 6,000 cries, collected from infants during their first week of life. In the first, published in the Journal of Voice , they focused on babies born to German and Mandarin-speaking Chinese families. In the second, published in Speech, Language and Hearing , they compared the cries of German babies to those of babies from Nso families in Cameroon, who speak Lamnso.
Unlike German (and English), both Mandarin and Lamnso are both tonal languages, in which a single combination of sounds can create multiple words; the meaning of a spoken word changes depending on the pitch the speaker uses. Accordingly, the Chinese and Nso babies both cried more melodically than their German counterparts: They had higher 'intra-utterance frequency variation,' meaning their pitches reached higher highs and lower lows, and their cries also fluctuated in pitch more quickly."
What does all that mean? Basically, these studies suggest that "babies are learning the nuances of speech even before they’re born, absorbing information about pitch from their mothers while still in the womb." So if mom speaks in a scouse accent (or any other kind), that basically predicts what those first words are going to sound like!
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