山羊也有口音：大胆开口说 “口音”也是福

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        Pygmy goats can develop "accents" as they grow older, according to scientists.科学家发现，小山羊随着年龄的增长，也会有“口音”。
        Dr Elodie Briefer and Dr Alan McElligott from Queen Mary's School of Biological and Chemical Sciences at the University of London, UK published their results in the journal Animal Behaviour.来自英国伦敦大学的伊洛蒂·布利弗尔博士和艾伦·麦克艾里戈特博士在《动物行为》杂志上发表了他们的研究成果。
        In order to test the goats' vocal repertoire they recorded calls at one-week-old and again when they were aged five weeks.为了研究小山羊的叫声，研究人员分别在山羊一周大和五周大的时候记录了他们的叫声。
        "We found that genetically-related kids produced similar calls... but the calls of kids raised in the same social groups were also similar to each other, and became more similar as the kids grew older. This suggests that goat kids modify their calls according to their social surroundings, developing similar 'accents'."“我们发现，基因相近的山羊发出的叫声很相似。同时，生活在同一社会群体中的山羊发出的叫声也彼此类似。而且，随着山羊的年龄增长，生活在相同生活环境下的山羊，其叫声就越相似。这就证明了山羊会根据生活环境不同而调整其叫声，也就是说，山羊也有口音。”
        沪江小编：童鞋们，这个故事告诉我们：有“口音”没什么大不了的，口音是你生活轨迹的一个写照，是你社会环境的一个反应，只要不影响交流，“口音”也是一笔财富！所以，大家不要再因为有口音而羞羞答答地不敢开口了，记住，语言就要大声说！