In the past, parents have sometimes been discouraged from using baby talk, but this study proves it can actually help promote speech development.
—when talking to babies. Now new research from the University of Florida is adding to the evidence that baby talk helps younger infants—less than a year old—produce their own speech., adults imitate the sounds of a smaller vocal tract when using baby talk, and this helps infants understand how they themselves should sound when they talk. The researchers looked at frequency sounds that either sounded like an infant or an adult vocal tract and then analyzed how the babies reacted to each.
These results indicate that baby talk and parentese are valuable, as they help cognitively “stimulate motor production of speech, not just the perception of speech," Matthew Masapollo, PhD, director of the UF laboratory for the study of cognition, action, and perception of speech, said in aCoauthor Linda Polk, PhD, of McGill University, agrees, saying that baby talk helps “prime [babies] to process their own voice.
In the past, parents have sometimes been discouraged from using baby talk, but both authors believe that it could help babies form their first words. If you’re looking forward to hearing your little one’s first words and trying help them along, check out our
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