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1 .This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This'll just take a minute.
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2 .What's the most universal utterance in languages across the globe?
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3 .Huh? Correct! Huh? That's right. HUH? Exactly.
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4 .Because a new study finds that everybody around the world does indeed say "huh?"
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5 .The finding is the journal PLOS One.
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6 .The researchers were exploring linguistic tools people use to assure fluid communication.
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7 .In this case, they were looking for an interjection that signals that a listener missed something, and prompts the speaker to repeat or rephrase the original statement.
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8 .In other words, something that works like the English word "Huh?"
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9 .So they eavesdropped on nearly 200 conversations in 10 different tongues, from Italian to Icelandic.
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10 .And they found that, in language after language, a word that sounds a lot like "huh?" gets the job done.
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11 .For example, (international huhs).
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12 .It's short and sweet so it's likely to stop the speaker before the listener gets too lost.
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13 .And it sounds like a question, so it warrants a response.
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14 .The sound appears not to be innate.
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15 .Babies don't use it before they say mama.
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16 .But most five-year-olds are masters of "huh?"
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17 .No matter where they come from.
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18 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
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