Hundreds of toddlers watched videos of a woman speaking in a playful style next to videos of traffic or techno. Researchers measured how much they paid attention to the woman. Using such tests could ...

'A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor.' - August Bier (German surgeon) Motherese refers to the simplified and repetitive type of speech combined with exaggerated intonation ...

Do you know what I’d like to know? Do you? Dooo you? Yes! Yeeeesss! Yes, you dooo! Don’t you? Well, if you don’t, I’ll tell you. What I’d like to know is: What’s the point of baby talk? This is a bit ...

Motherese is a form of simplified, exaggerated melodic speech that parents use to communicate with newborns and young toddlers. A horse becomes horsie; a dog becomes doggie; parents become mama and ...

Around the world, mothers speak differently to their children than they do to other adults — and Princeton researchers have found a new way to quantify that vocal shift. With their kids, mothers ...

Researchers have found that mothers actually change the timbre of their voices when they speak to their babies in "motherese." It is a form of speech mothers use to communicate with infants that is ...

Bottlenose dolphin mother and calf. Source: Photo taken under NMFS MMPA Permit No. 20455 issued to the Sarasota Dolphin Research Program. Across human cultures, people modify their speech when ...

Bottlenose dolphin mothers use baby talk, or “motherese,” to their infants, just as human mothers and caregivers do, according to a new study. Researchers with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ...

Lower levels of attention to infant-directed speech, also known as “motherese” or “parentese,” by toddlers could be an early indicator of autism spectrum disorder, according to a study published in ...