"Adjusting our speech to sound smaller when we use baby talk may be a way to convey affect to the baby, by trying to sound like them," she said. "At the same time, it can also help them in terms of ...

Infant-directed speech - often referred to as baby talk - helps infants learn the sounds of their language. The post Baby talk helps infants’ brains process language earlier: study appeared first on ...

Baby talk isn't just cute—it could play a vital role in helping infants learn the sounds of their language, new research from the University of the Sunshine Coast has found. The study is published in ...

“Adjusting our speech to sound smaller when we use baby talk may be a way to convey affect to the baby, by trying to sound like them,” she said. “At the same time, it can also help them in terms of ...

We all use baby talk when we babble with bundles of joy, but does how we talk to infants vary across cultures? The answer seems to be yes and no. "Some cultures talk more or less to babies, some not ...

How baby talk might differ A study published in February in the journal Child Development found that dads in North America tended to slow their speech when talking to infants, whereas dads in the ...