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Babies cry with accents

German researchers say babies begin to pick up the nuances of their parents' accents while still in the womb.

The researchers studied the cries of 60 healthy babies born to families speaking French and German.

The French newborns cried with a rising "accent" while the German babies' cries had a falling inflection.

Source: BBC News

(I guess Welsh babies cried up and down like a police siren.)

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