Babies Cry in Accents Heard in the Womb
November 7, 2009
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Newborn babies start learning language in the womb—and are born with what you might call accents, a new study of crying babies says.
That fetuses hear and become accustomed to language is nothing new. Several studies have shown that, when exposed to different languages shortly after birth, a baby will typically indicate a preference for the language closest to the one he or she would’ve heard during gestation.