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Newborn babies cry with accent
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German researchers say babies begin to pick up the nuances of their parents' accents while still in the womb. The findings suggest that unborn babies are influenced by the sound of the first language that penetrates the womb. The French newborns cried with a rising accent while the German babies' cries had a falling inflection. It was already known that foetuses could memorise sounds from the outside world in the last three months of pregnancy and were particularly sensitive to the contour of the melody in both music and human voices.

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