Babies cry with an accent within a week of being born, ABC News reports.
Researchers have found that babies cry with the same melody, or "prosody", used in their native tongue within 48 hours.
The findings come from a study which recorded the cries of 60 babies born to French or German parents.
Researchers found French babies ended their cries with a lilt at the end, typically heard in French.
Meanwhile, German babies started their cries intensely and dropped off at the end, similar to how their German parents put emphasis in a sentence.
The study was published today in
Current Biology.
Experts have said this means newborns may have the ability to use what they heard while they were in the womb to then control their cries.
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