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Properties of ‘Baby Talk’ similar across many languages

12/10/2022 09:21 PM | Click to read full article

‘Baby talk’ or infant-directed speech (IDS) refers to the way caregivers talk to young infants, and generally includes a high-pitched, slow-paced, animated speech. 

This spontaneous, automatic, and intuitive way of speaking has been studied for decades to understand why human beings communicate in this way with infants and what it might suggest about child development.

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