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You know that original promotion for the movie sound system in theaters that had the big creshendo with the slogan,

"The Audience Is Listening" ?
(see a spoof of this old thing here)

Well, pregnant mommies will get a kick out of this --

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.

That's right. We've always known that babies listen to things while they're still in the womb, but who would have guessed they're so bored they're actually remembering -- not so much what is being said but how...

Dr Wermke's team recorded and analysed the cries of 60 healthy newborns when they were three to five days old.

Their analysis revealed clear differences in the shape of the infants' cry melodies that corresponded to their mother tongue.

They say the babies need only well-co-ordinated respiratory-laryngeal systems to imitate melody contours and not the vocal control that develops later.
[BBC]

Ahhh, junk science. Is there any preconceived notion it can't support?