You have more influence on those first sounds coming from your baby than you might think! New research suggests that infants start learning elements of their first language in the womb. That’s long before they make their first coos.

According to a new study published in Current Biology, a baby’s first cries carry an accent. French infants don’t cry the same way as German infants. For the study, researchers compared recordings of 30 French and 30 German infants that were between two and five days old. The languages are very different since French words often have a stress at the end, …read more