Babies prefer baby talk, whether they’re learning one language or two

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Babies prefer baby talk, whether they’re learning one language or two

It can be hard to resist lapsing into an exaggerated, singsong tone when you talk to a cute baby. And that’s with good reason. Babies will pay more attention to baby talk than regular speech, regardless of which languages they’re used to hearing, according to a study by UCLA’s Language Acquisition Lab and 16 other labs around the globe.

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