http://peadarroe.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/the-lord-hears-the-cry-of-the-poor/
The Lord Hears The Cry Of The Poor
November 7, 2009
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Just in case you were wondering, the title of this little piece is a line from a hymn I often sing at funerals. It came to me as I was thinking about a little sentence embedded in a story I just read.
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Aside from the fact that they are readily identifiable as recordings of crying babies, they are quite different. Scientists, at least the ones studying this, point to these differences as typical for the sound patterns of German and French speech. They conclude from this that infants are mimicking and practicing their native language, communicating as they can, from the very earliest.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8346058.stm
[JR: A Jasper blogger has given us a lot of food for thought. And, evidence that there's a person in there somewhere.]
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