@justalexoki It never occurred to me that babies could have babbling with an accent.

@Dshoopy0 me neither!! it's so obvious but so crazy

@justalexoki They do! And bilingual babies babble in ways that would make sense in either language.

@moriah_bridges no freaking way

@justalexoki I love this.

@musings_blonde it's so freaking adorable

@justalexoki I need to hear a German baby babble

@oliveegger ohhhhhhh yes that would be so funny

@justalexoki chinese baby https://www.youtube.com/shorts...

@justalexoki I’m always confused at different language takes on animal sounds Maybe the dogs are also imitating the local language?

@justalexoki Omg 😏💦 hearing a baby sound like French just got me thinking…..... imagine those little babbles turning into real conversations 😘🔥 so hypnotic

@justalexoki this is what the French reporter sounded to Trump

@justalexoki Lot of stuff we don’t think about

@justalexoki Its funny in all languages, and like when they’re toddlers running around speaking the language you’re trying to learn it’s hilarious. Like toddlers should not be going around speaking German trying to be serious

@justalexoki fun fact: baby babble starts with all possible phonemes and their range of phonemes decreases as they narrow in on their starter language.

@justalexoki babbling (in french)

@justalexoki How tf did you never see it

@justalexoki My suspicion is it’s not entirely local and there might be a universal grammar (in Chomsky’s legitimate work sense) underneath it

@justalexoki You might be an idiot

@justalexoki Italian cat: https://www.instagram.com/reel...

@justalexoki IIRC by 8 months their brain has rewired to prioritize recognizing sounds used in the language they're exposed to, so it's harder to recognize differences after that.

@justalexoki Watch Monk (2002). There's an episode where Tony Shalhoub forgets how to talk and babbles incoherently. There's a mildly interesting discussion where people discuss why that might be, due to his family's origin. https://www.reddit.com/r/langu...

@justalexoki Trying to learn from nothing, they see and hear everything you do. Don’t believe they are too young to understand.

@justalexoki This is bc babies first learn the “music” of the language. They copy our prosody and cadence, our intonation, patterns stressed/not stressed, and overall flow. It’s why it’s important to speak normally, too, instead of baby talk all the time

@justalexoki Its funny in all languages, and like when they’re toddlers running around speaking the language you’re trying to learn it’s hilarious. Like toddlers should not be going around speaking German trying to be serious

@justalexoki they be saying the MOST fr we should all just go back to baby babble

@justalexoki I wonder how confused my trilingual 3-month-old is right about now

@justalexoki Me trying to speak French to a waiter on a city break to Bordeaux

@justalexoki I miss this stage so much. her little baby feet

@justalexoki Babies begin learning language in the womb. The learn from what they hear. The first language they hear is their mothers.

@justalexoki Wait till you hear their dog 😲

@justalexoki Babies start processing language before they are even born.

@justalexoki Yes they learn tone and cadence via imitation. It helps them suss out types of words and how they're constructed to eventually service meaning from context for new words. It's a whole thing.

@justalexoki It's like a neural network that has finished 60/100 epochs.

@justalexoki I really badly need baby babble in other languages now.