Imagine you’re strolling through a park and you overhear a middle-aged couple cooing over each other, doting over their “wittle sugar pwum” and “baby doll.” “Ewwww,” you might reflexively think. Baby ...

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(THE CONVERSATION) — Imagine you’re strolling through a park and you overhear a middle-aged couple cooing over each other, doting over their “wittle sugar pwum” and “baby doll.” “Ewwww,” you might ...

Is baby talk good for a romantic relationship? Source: jambulboy/pixabay Baby talk triggers mixed emotions in people. Baby talking towards babies or pets seems perfectly appropriate to most observers.

A study finds babies prefer baby talk, whether they're learning one language or two. Scientists knew infants learning one language preferred the sing-song tones of parents' baby talk, and now ...

Baby talk isn't just cute—it could play a vital role in helping infants learn the sounds of their language, new research from the University of the Sunshine Coast has found. The study is published in ...

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, ...

“Motherese” is the cutesy language we use around preverbal infants. It serves important roles in language development and emotional coregulation. But why do we use it with animals? Domestication ...