Related self-reply: > Newborns can recognize the voices they’ve been hearing for the last trimester in the womb, especially the sounds that come from their mot

Related self-reply: > Newborns can recognize the voices they’ve been hearing for the last trimester in the womb, especially the sounds that come from their mothers, and prefer those voices to the voices of strangers. They also prefer other languages with similar rhythms, rather than languages with very different rhythms. (Newborns indicated their preferences by how long they sucked on specially rigged pacifiers that enabled them to hear one speaker versus another, or one language versus another.) * https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/21/well/family/language-lessons-start-in-the-womb.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/21/well/family/language-less... * https://archive.ph/xLDrz https://archive.ph/xLDrz