Fundamental Frequency Variation of Neonatal Spontaneous Crying Predicts Language Acquisition in Preterm and Term Infants
Spontaneous cries of infants exhibit rich melodic features (i.e., time Integrated washing Machine variation of fundamental frequency [F0]) even during the neonatal period, and the development of these characteristics might provide an essential base for later expressive prosody in language.However, little is known about the melodic features of spont