S ome people refuse to use baby talk with babies. The sing-song repetition of cute nonsense words commonly spoken by adults ...

Baby talk isn't just cute—it could play a vital role in helping infants learn the sounds of their language, new research from ...

AND THEY SAY YOU CAN HELP AS WELL. STILL IN DIAPERS WITH A MIND OF HIS OWN. WE’LL GIVE YOU SOME TIME TO WARM UP. HE’S THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS STUDY, BUT CLEARLY, THAT DOESN’T MATTER TO HIM. TAKE ...

June 12 -- — Babies learn to speak the same way that some birds learn how to sing. Infants don't learn to speak just by imitating the sounds of older humans in their midst, according to new research.

You may not realize this, but your newborn is a linguistic dynamo waiting to happen. Babies can distinguish 800 language sounds, which means they are primed to learn several languages — at the same ...

You might have seen those heartwarming and often funny viral videos where parents or caregivers engage in long "talks" with young babies about this and that—usually just fun chit chat of no great ...

It would be hard to imagine living in a world in which you couldn’t use language to communicate basic wants and desires to others. And yet, babies very much find themselves in that position prior to ...

"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 ...

Jane Herbert has received funding for these projects: 2012-15: Does promoting parents’ engagement with their infants benefit language development?” Nuffield Foundation (approx. £200,000). D Matthews ...