My sisters are twins and while I don’t remember them having conversations like this, watching these two videos brings back an awful lot of memories.
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Stupid question:
Are they actually conversing (like speaking twin) or just imitating conversational sounds?
Their body language and intonation makes it appear that they are actually conveying information, but I feel like I can’t hear what would be distinct words? Maybe it’s just my hearing failure though.
Either way: neat. The communication through body posture is fascinating to watch in children so small.
I suspect it’s both. They don’t know how to make distinct words, they’re just imitating the pattern they’ve observed. (“When the big people talk, they make sounds with their mouth.”) So that’s just “ba ba ba”.
But they sure seem to be communicating something with their body language. And maybe the tone/volume/something else of the ba-ba-ba has informational content as well.
And by the way, it’s not a stupid question at all. How and when the brain and communication and interpersonal awareness and all that amazing stuff develops are deeply profound questions that we’re only scratching at the edges of, after thinking about them for thousands of years.
Well not you and me personally, that I know of. People in general. :)
Even just with my singleton children, I can think of sounds they made at this stage that, in retrospect, had informational content. They just weren’t close enough to my words that I could recognize them as words at the time.
My husband is a twin, and he has memories of his brother and him doing things that required communication that come from ages that are so young that 1) most people don’t have memories of that age at all and 2) they had to be understanding each other at a level far beyond what kids that age can communicate to adults.
Very cute video. I love how they follow each other around and do all the same things. That’s just how my husband and his brother are in the old home movies. (Though their relationship as adults is quite complicated.)
Here is a subtitled version I made! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEduhGjFQCM&feature=channel_video_title
I did that when I was little. Apparently I was really good at imitating the intonations of people around me, but didn’t understand that there was more to language than just tone and hand gestures. I’d go up to my mom and make “bluh bluh bluhbluh bluh” noises, which was what I heard when my parents talked, then get really upset when no one understood me.
From the video, I don’t think they’re saying anything with words, but they seem to be picking up on each other’s tone really well.
The cutest video around. I love the leaked response: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKBIbqewTj8