Lauren Cox, ABC Medical News Unit (Nov 5) reveals that researchers have discovered that babies cry with an accent - the same as that of their native language by the 2nd day after birth.
The study analysed the cries of 30 French and 30 German babies.
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in the cryprints of infants as young as 5 months old, weighing only 900 grams, researchers have found correspondence to intonations, rhythms, and other speech performance features of the mother. this revolutionary discovery meant only that the infants were hearing their mothers but had been taking language lessons. The unborn baby, well before birth, had already acquired some of their mothers' personal accents and speech sounds. (David Chamberlain's work is worth reading, especially on the subject of pre-born language acquisition, eg The Mind of Your Newborn Baby)