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German researchers studied the cries of 60 healthy babies born to families speaking French and German. They determined that the babies began to pick up the nuances of their parents' accents while still in the womb.

The French newborns cried with a rising "accent", while the German babies' cries had a falling inflection, which matches the general inflection of the two languages. The findings suggest that unborn babies are influenced by the sound of the first language that penetrates the womb.