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

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 ...

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

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

Babies don't learn to talk just from hearing sounds. New research suggests they're lip-readers too. It happens during that magical stage when a baby's babbling gradually changes from gibberish into ...

With a new baby, it is a rite of passage for parents to worry about their adequacy as role models in the face of raising another human. How to keep them safe, what to feed them, and how to educate ...

A new study suggests that when parents baby talk to their infants, they might be helping them learn to produce speech. The way we instinctively speak to babies -- higher pitch, slower speed, ...

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 ...