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Question: Have you heard/read about research into unborn babies learning to recognise music and sounds coming from outside the womb (e.g. research by Partanen in 2013 using ERPs)? These pieces of research suggest that newborns may have grown accustomed to the sorts of sounds present in their mothers first language while developing as a fetus. Do you think that this could relate to your research into the emotions attached to words in primary vs secondary languages?
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Diana commented on :
yes. there is some evidence
e.g. http://www.nhs.uk/news/2013/10october/pages/babies-may-remember-music-heard-in-the-womb.aspx
evidence is mostly physiological – brain scans or heart ratessome is behavioural e.g baby becomes mre attentive
much more work on prenatal speech than musics
so there is a topi for future scientist