Adorable babbling baby spars with sitter over nap in viral video — proving a point for researchers

Even babbling babies can have accents, scientists say — citing a viral video of a British toddler squabbling with her babysitter over a nap with a distinctive Liverpudlian cadence.

Baby Orla’s adorable spat with caregiver Olayka has gotten more than 20 million views on TikTok , with the 19-month-old girl’s clear “scouser” accent seeming to back up the theory that babies absorb their language skills at a very young age, the Guardian said .

“That’s how language comes into the brain of babies,” said Wurzburg University Professor Kathleen Wermke, a German speech development pioneer, to the outlet. “They learn the musical features of the surrounding languages. The music is always first, it’s like a scaffold for the words.”

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In the viral video, Olayka is having a “conversation” with the baby about taking a nap.

“Why don’t you ever want to go to sleep?” she asks. “You got energy?”

Orla babbles back as if engaged in a serious exchange, although making no sense to anyone but herself.

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“You’re the baby. You’re meant to listen to what I’m saying,” the babysitter says during the 1-minute video before she breaks down laughing.

Wermke argued in a previous study that what seems like gibberish is the foundation of language.

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The study found that French babies wail on a rising note and German babies use “a falling melody” when they babble — in essence mimicking those respective languages.

Wermke found similar patters in infants from Mandarin and Swedish families and those using different African dialects, the Guardian said.

Orla, for example, already displays the intonation typical of scouse, the Liverpudlian accent, scientists say.

“They have just the contours of the language that they will populate it with words,” said Caroline Floccia, a developmental psychologist at the University of Plymouth. “Others start with isolated words, and then they will construct sentences from that. Then you can have plenty of kids who are in the middle.”

What remains unclear is whether Orla was convinced to take her nap.

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