Baby talk” gets a bad rap, but it’s actually one of the most powerful tools for helping children learn language.

Imagine your 8-month-old telling you she sees an airplane. Or your 10-month-old telling you he has an ear ache. Would you like your toddler to cry less, talk more, and have fewer temper tantrums?

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When we read, it's very easy for us to tell individual words apart: In written language, spaces are used to separate words from one another. But this is not the case with spoken language – speech is a ...

You've heard it. You've probably done it. We're talking baby talk. And it turns out, the features of baby talk — softer tone, higher pitch, almost unintelligible vocabulary — are global. Researchers ...