“Dada,” “mama,” “baba”—everyone who has infants is familiar with this vocal behavior called babbling, a milestone in human infant speech development. Successful language acquisition requires the ability to produce canonical syllables such as /da/ba/ga/ and infants practice them during babbling. A new study published by researchers from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin in Science shows for the first time that the babbling behavior of bat pups is characterized by similar key features as human infant babbling.
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Source: Phys.org