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Many believe that lullabies, characterized by their less steady beat, contain some acoustic features that are universally calming to infants. In a study, Constance M. Bainbridge and colleagues played both a lullaby sung in the Western Nahuatl language and a non-lullaby sung in the Serbian language to a group of infants. The researchers also measured the infants' heart rates, as a reduced heart rate is considered a measure of relaxation. They claim that the lullaby did indeed relax the infants.