Reverse Speech research has discovered that children speak backwards before they do forwards. From as early as 4 months of age they are pronouncing simple words in reverse and by the time they reach 13-14 months of age, complex sentences are forming in reverse. Click here for an article about reverse speech and children.
This example is at almost four months of age. Right at the very end of the reversed track the child says, "Hullo" – Download mp3 file
Child at 4 months making noises forwards becomes Mummy, Mummy backwards. – Download mp3 file
Child at seven months of age reaching out for the tape recorder – Whats that – Download mp3 file
In this example my 13 month old daughter was in the bath trying to pick up a cup. She was unable to do so and reached out to me for assistance. The reversals says: "David. Help me." When you listen to the forward note that she says "Daddy" – forwards. The reversed word, David, occurred on the forward word Daddy. This shows the beginning of speech complementarity and the young child beginning to connect concepts David is Daddy. – Download mp3 file
A young child says – Please Daddy help – Download mp3 file
Child at 18 months of age – Daddy loves mum – Download mp3 file
Child at 18 months, after being moved from one room to another – I now come here – Download mp3 file
Child sings while playing – Hug me – Download mp3 file
Here a child plays with some ducks – Backwards she says "Just love to be a friend" – Download mp3 file
Child at 3 years asks her play mate, why did you have an injection and she answers "to make me better" and reversed says, "I hated them". – Download mp3 file
Found by RS student, Joan Corron. This child is a 3 year old girl. Her Dad had knocked over a chair which fell on Mommy’s foot and broke a bone. The little girl’s Grandpa says "He hurt Mommy very much". The child responds, "It’s okay". But in reverse she says "It was not". – Download mp3 file
In this example Daddy is changing a dirty diaper. The child says forwards, "A diaper" and backwards he says, "Help me out" – Download mp3 file
Child crying – Daddy help – Download mp3
In this example a child’s pants have fallen down. Backwards the child says, "It broke, mommy." – Download mp3
Here is an amazing reversal found by reverse speech hobbyist, Matt Goward on his young child. The whole track is played forwards first, then the exact forward is isolated and reversed at three speeds. It says, "I love you Momma" – followed by dad – "Your Mommy". Then the exact forwards is played forwards and backwards. Then, and note this, the the child’s exact words is played forwards and backwards twice. A true mirror image reversal – "I love you momma", both forwards and backwards. – Download mp3 file
A young child talks about her friend – Shes good looking – Download mp3 file
Here a child plays – Love that journey
Careful what you say to your kids. It may come out backwards – Hey fucking hell – Download mp3 file
Here, the child’s anger shows in his reversal – Holy shit – Download mp3 file
An 8 year old talks about subjects she is good at. She starts to tell us of a subject she is not good at but changes her mind. Note the slip of tongue – I’m not telling – Download mp3
Here is an example on my daughter when she was nine years old. She is singing a song and backwards she says: "I am the power. I am Oates." – Download mp3 file
Here is a reversal found on a handicapped 15 years old girl. It says "Mum-my… love you." – Download mp3 file
This reversal was found on a child who has been deaf from birth – I describe this, er, whirlwind – Download mp3 file