Newborn babies cry with regional ‘accents’ copied from their mothers, researchers have shown.
An astonishing new study found that the screams of a five-day-old French baby have a distinct Gallic twang, while German babies have a Teutonic quality to their yells.
The discovery suggests that babies are eavesdropping on their parent’s conversations while still in the womb and are picking up their accents.
The French baby cries tended to start low and then rise in pitch, the researchers reported in the journal Current Biology. In contrast, the German baby cries tended to start high and then drop in pitch. Full story.
I searched for a video of a French crying baby but this is all I could find:
