Since babies dont know any particular language at first, when they think, what language do you think they think in?
2007-04-13 12:10:21 · 9 answers · asked by ..... 7 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
The universal language of survival. They don't think in a language. You don't need a language to know you're hungry, tired, cold, wet, want to be held, etc. They FEEL. They react instinctively. Language comes later.
2007-04-13 12:16:51 · answer #1 · answered by Haulie 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I agree with everyone. Babies do what they need to do to survive. Everything they do is a reflex (rooting, stepping, fencing). They respond to the language they hear in the womb more than others. There has been research done where a baby who hears the language they hear the most sucks slowly and relaxed. When they hear a different language they suck harder and more quickly.
2007-04-13 19:20:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry I don't have an answer, but I just have to say that this is a great question!
I've wondered the same thing as well, but figured it was what the others above me answered - that they just know they're hungry, tired, etc.
2007-04-13 19:22:18 · answer #3 · answered by PrncessD 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Steven Pinker believes that we all form our language after the sounds that our mothers make...Motherease. This is a really interesting book about language.
http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/books/tli/index.html
2007-04-13 19:15:53 · answer #4 · answered by Kate M 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
that's a hard one, but they hear you from in the womb so maybe they learn then, who really knows, i think its like learning a language and they learn as they go
2007-04-13 20:03:39 · answer #5 · answered by sweetpea <3 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't think - They just act.
2007-04-13 19:13:09 · answer #6 · answered by squeezie_1999 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
i always wonder too
2007-04-13 19:18:22 · answer #7 · answered by ghadoud2004 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
IVE ALWAYS WONDERED THAT! i have no idea!
2007-04-13 19:18:02 · answer #8 · answered by a_thing_like_jesus 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
HURBALAHHHHAHEHOOOOOOOOOHHHH!
or
AAAAAGHHUUUNTSIIITLDJ...........lol
2007-04-13 19:22:44 · answer #9 · answered by MadbI 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋